- Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:59 am
#9470
An excerpt from a website about the Lake City Arsenal...
"While the Army is opening up what had been an exclusive contract, Army officials said that not many ammunition manufacturers are capable of meeting the military specifications required for its small caliber rounds.
When supplies were drawn down quickly last year, the Army had to turn to foreign suppliers to make "urgent buys."
That ammunition was supplied by Poongsan Metals Corp. in South Korea, Israeli Military Industries, SNC of Canada and the Winchester division of Olin Corp. in East Alton, Ill. Rider said Israeli rounds have been used for training in the U.S. but not in Iraq, where the ammunition's origin might create political problems with Iraqi citizens.
During World War II, there were 16 small caliber ammunition plants scattered throughout the U.S. That number was reduced to six during the Vietnam War, and after the war cut further to just Lake City, a facility that was opened in 1940 in a ceremony featuring future president Harry Truman, at the time a Democratic senator from Missouri."
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,1 ... 05,00.html
"While the Army is opening up what had been an exclusive contract, Army officials said that not many ammunition manufacturers are capable of meeting the military specifications required for its small caliber rounds.
When supplies were drawn down quickly last year, the Army had to turn to foreign suppliers to make "urgent buys."
That ammunition was supplied by Poongsan Metals Corp. in South Korea, Israeli Military Industries, SNC of Canada and the Winchester division of Olin Corp. in East Alton, Ill. Rider said Israeli rounds have been used for training in the U.S. but not in Iraq, where the ammunition's origin might create political problems with Iraqi citizens.
During World War II, there were 16 small caliber ammunition plants scattered throughout the U.S. That number was reduced to six during the Vietnam War, and after the war cut further to just Lake City, a facility that was opened in 1940 in a ceremony featuring future president Harry Truman, at the time a Democratic senator from Missouri."
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,1 ... 05,00.html
- By SR9