In a warehouse off Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in an industrial area outside Dallas, the future of American military ammunition production is coming online.
Here, in the Pentagon’s first new major arms plant built since Russia invaded Ukraine, Turkish workers in orange hard hats are busy unpacking wood crates stenciled with the name Repkon, a defense company based in Istanbul, and assembling computer-controlled robots and lathes.
The factory will soon turn out about 30,000 steel shells every month for the 155-millimeter howitzers that have become crucial to Kyiv’s war effort.
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To keep Ukraine’s artillery crews supplied, the Pentagon set a production target last year of 100,000 shells per month by the end of 2025. Factories in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., together make about 36,000 shells per month. The new General Dynamics facility in Mesquite, Texas, will make 30,000 each month once it reaches its full capacity.
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So the NYT doesn’t even try to pretend that General Dynamics and the Pentagon are not the same entity.
can’t see article bc paywall, but most likely it’s GOCO facility - government owned, contractor operated https://www.baesystems.com/en/feature/government-owned--contractor-operated-101
There’s an archive link at the bottom of the post.
oops i can’t read, looked it up looks like it’s the case
I don’t know who operates it, but I do recall reading that the older artillery shell manufacturing facility at Scranton is also owned by the government.
Scranton is General Dynamics stuff
I don’t think anybody ever really withheld information about how defense contracting works. It’s not a NYT thing.
It’s a big part of the way the current US Presidential administration has been talking about the Ukraine arms funding: that it will mostly be spent here, manufacturing things for war.
Edit: changed one word.
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