a short (six) photo-essay on the Munitions-Plant volume-output...
http://www.Time.com/time/photoessays/20 ... ion_plant/
from another source:
The government-owned, contractor-operated Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP) in Independence, Missouri, is the largest (458 buildings on 3,935 acres) small-arms manufacturing plant in the world.
Founded in 1941, "Lake City" manufactures and proof-tests small arms (5.56mm - 20mm) munitions. It was initially operated by Remington Arms Company until 1985 when Olin Corporation bid and was awarded the contract to operate the facility. In 1999, Alliant TechSystems (ATK) in conjunction with Federal Cartridge Corporation won a ten-year contract to assume the operations. ATK subsequently acquired Federal Cartridge from Blount Sporting Goods Division.
Billions of Bullets
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Billions of Bullets
Last edited by toyfj40 on Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
That was interesting. Just one of those carts of 7.62 ammo would keep me busy for a while.
Just why the writers have got to refer to ammunition or cartridges as bullets I'll never know. They probably don't know the proper names, but it just bugs me.
I'd sure love to have a couple of those shrink wrapped M4s too.
Joe
Just why the writers have got to refer to ammunition or cartridges as bullets I'll never know. They probably don't know the proper names, but it just bugs me.
I'd sure love to have a couple of those shrink wrapped M4s too.
Joe
Hard to tell without a visual reference point but those carts may be full of 50 cal. cartridges. I know the lady in slide two is QA checking 50 cal., and in slide one the lady in the foreground is looking into a tray of 50's too. Lake City is the only government small arms ammunition plant still running. Over a billion cartridges a year is a lot of ammo.
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I saw the 50 cals in the pics, but to my eyes the ones in the carts sorta looked like 7.62s. Maybe it was fancifull dreaming on my part.
Ahhhhh, you know, it would be fun to shoot all that up. Not have to wory about picking up the brass, reloading, trimming, sizing, priming, etc, etc.
That's what I need to do, get a job test firing ammo some where. Oh well, more fancifull dreaming.
Joe
Ahhhhh, you know, it would be fun to shoot all that up. Not have to wory about picking up the brass, reloading, trimming, sizing, priming, etc, etc.
That's what I need to do, get a job test firing ammo some where. Oh well, more fancifull dreaming.
Joe