"The goal is 100,000 per month": a new plant to produce 155 mm shells for Ukraine will be opened in the US

A new General Dynamics 155mm shell production plant is being prepared for launch in Mesquite, Texas, which will produce 30,000 shells per month.

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The New York Times shared photos of the new facility, which cost more than $500 million to build. It will consist of three production lines and create 350 new jobs.

This will be the first such facility to be built by the Pentagon from scratch since the start of the war in Ukraine. It was built in 10 months thanks to funding from Congress and with the help of the Turkish company Repkon.

By the way, Repkon is an Istanbul-based company that assembles robots and computer-controlled lathes for businesses.

In addition to these new facilities, the US also produces about 36,000 missiles per month at plants in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Pentagon is also planning to launch a second line to equip ammunition with explosives at a military plant in Iowa and partially reopen a plant in Parsons, Kansas, that packs shell charges, which was closed in the 2000s.

"The goal of 100,000 per month is a nearly tenfold increase in production from what it was a few years ago," officials explained.