Texas has opened a new factory to produce 155 mm artillery shells, reports the NYT. As noted, the enterprise will produce about 30,000 shells every month.
The opening of the new General Dynamics plant in the city of Mesquite cost more than $500M. The plant includes advanced production technologies and automation for producing large-caliber metal parts. When the plant reaches full capacity, it will employ about 350 people.
The NYT edition recalled that the US Department of Defense aimed to produce 100,000 shells per month by the end of 2025. The plants in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, make about 36,000 shells per month.
The Pentagon noted that the US has provided Kyiv with more than 3 million 155mm shells since the start of the full-scale war.