How a Texas Factory Is Emerging as a Key Ammo Supplier for the U.S., Ukraine

July 4, 2024

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A General Dynamics facility slated to make artillery shells is part of the Pentagon’s push to produce more weapons domestically

MESQUITE, Texas—Walking past new hydraulic presses and orange robots handling semifinished artillery shells, U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth had a question for a manufacturing company executive.

“Do the Russians have this technology?” Wormuth asked Ibrahim Kulekci, chief executive of the Turkish firm that designed and installed key machinery in the plant…