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The Holston Army Ammunition Plant, also known as the Holston Ordnance Works, was constructed by Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport, Tennessee to manufacture explosives during World War II. BAE Systems' division Ordnance Systems, Inc. currently operates the plant under a 25-year facilities use contract.
An 8.2-mile (13.2 km) four-lane bypass of Church Hill and Mount Carmel between the Kingsport Press plant in New Canton and the Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kingsport saw construction work start in the fall of 1967 and was dedicated and opened on August 28, 1970, more than one year behind schedule. [34] [35]
Holston Army Ammunition Plant: Kingsport, Tennessee Iowa Army Ammunition Plant: Middletown, Iowa Lake City Army Ammunition Plant: Independence, Missouri Milan Army Ammunition Plant: Milan, Tennessee Pine Bluff Arsenal: Pine Bluff, Arkansas Radford Army Ammunition Plant: Radford, Virginia Scranton Army Ammunition Plant [1] [4] Scranton, Pennsylvania
The plant, managed by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, is part of a broader effort by the Army to update its industrial base and achieve a goal of making 155mm artillery shells at a ...
The city is situated among rolling hills on the northern portion of Smith Bend, overlooking the Holston River. The city is bordered by Mount Carmel to the northeast, and the Holston Army Ammunition Plant lies to the southeast, across the Holston River. Bays Mountain, a prominent Ridge-and-Valley formation, dominates the horizon to the south.
Buttigieg was among a host of officials who descended upon the old Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in western Johnson County to survey the vast field of dirt where the $4 billion plant that is ...
The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant cuts and forges 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) bars of steel into 155 mm howitzer rounds that are then shipped to Iowa to.
For example, it is believed that a training incident in Nevada which killed seven Marines would not have occurred with the new explosive. On March 23, 2013, the United States Army ordered $780 million worth of the explosive, with a production of millions of pounds annually, to be produced by BAE at Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Tennessee. [5]