The Romanian soldiers found about 3,000 107mm rockets, 250,000 rounds of machine-gun ammunition and about one million rounds of small arms ammunition, US military spokesman Colonel Roger King said.
More than 20 truckloads of ammunition and weapons were destroyed in the biggest controlled explosion British forces have carried out since World War II.
British forces operating in Afghanistan say they have found four caves containing "substantial amounts" of weapons and ammunition, believed to belong to al-Qaeda fighters.
KHOWRI KHORAH, Afghanistan - After a grueling hike over craggy terrain, Sgt. 1st Class Craig Ogden crawls through a 3-foot-high opening to a goat pen tucked into a cliff, searching for a massive weapons cache. Behind a stack of stones at the rear of the pen, the company of soldiers finds hundreds of mortar and recoilless rifle rounds, rockets and more than 120 cases of ammunition - many labeled in Chinese
The cache was one of the largest found in Afghanistan, Ogden said Thursday.
The operation in the Kohe Safi mountains east of Kabul was one of the first to combine intelligence collected by the International Security Assistance Force, which maintains security in the capital of Kabul, and the U.S.-led multinational anti-terror coalition.
This was the last one found there in the past few days. How long have we been in Kabul and had control of the area? Anyone suprised it took so long to find this and the other huge weapons caches, beginning to understand the need for patience with Iraq? The Taliban had neither the resources or technology to hide their stuff as well as Saddam could have, and it still could be done very easily and still not be found for years obviously.
More than 20 truckloads of ammunition and weapons were destroyed in the biggest controlled explosion British forces have carried out since World War II.
British forces operating in Afghanistan say they have found four caves containing "substantial amounts" of weapons and ammunition, believed to belong to al-Qaeda fighters.
KHOWRI KHORAH, Afghanistan - After a grueling hike over craggy terrain, Sgt. 1st Class Craig Ogden crawls through a 3-foot-high opening to a goat pen tucked into a cliff, searching for a massive weapons cache. Behind a stack of stones at the rear of the pen, the company of soldiers finds hundreds of mortar and recoilless rifle rounds, rockets and more than 120 cases of ammunition - many labeled in Chinese
The cache was one of the largest found in Afghanistan, Ogden said Thursday.
The operation in the Kohe Safi mountains east of Kabul was one of the first to combine intelligence collected by the International Security Assistance Force, which maintains security in the capital of Kabul, and the U.S.-led multinational anti-terror coalition.
This was the last one found there in the past few days. How long have we been in Kabul and had control of the area? Anyone suprised it took so long to find this and the other huge weapons caches, beginning to understand the need for patience with Iraq? The Taliban had neither the resources or technology to hide their stuff as well as Saddam could have, and it still could be done very easily and still not be found for years obviously.