I would very much like to go to the Ordnance Museum there. The armored fighting vehicle in the photograph is a World War 2 German “Jagdtiger,” which was an turretless anti-tank assault gun mounted on a Mark VI Tiger chassis. The gun was a 120mm, matched in size only by the 122mm on the Soviet Stalin tank, and surpassed by the 152 gun/howitzer mounted on the Soviet SU-152 assault gun.
I could probably spend a full day at that place.
Unfortunately the information in this post is outdated.
The hardware of the Ordnance Museum has been moved to Fort Lee, Virginia along with the rest of the Ordnance School.
I worked as a member of the automotive gun crew at Aberdeen for 30 years from 1979 to 2009 (after 4 years in the Army) and it was an awesome career, to say the least.
I was sad to see the items go, the Atomic Cannon, Anzio Annie and many other unique large and small pieces of foreign and domestic miltary history.
APG’s mission is changing but it is still at the forefront of our nations military readiness and I’ll be looking forward to its 100th anniversary in 3 years.
Good evening, henkster...that does sound like a good road trip, and most interesting things to look at.
I live a mile from the entrance. The Ordnance Museum is closed. Everything was moved including the old tanks.
I coach a high school robotics team that meets at APG in a new STEM outreach center. I’m one of the few coaches that does not work there.
My kids love it when big stuff goes BOOM and shakes up the house.
I live a mile from the entrance. The Ordnance Museum is closed. Everything was moved including the old tanks.
I coach a high school robotics team that meets at APG in a new STEM outreach center. I’m one of the few coaches that does not work there.
My kids love it when big stuff goes BOOM and shakes up the house.