"USA to make its own TNT" Topic

The U.S. Army awarded a $435 USD million contract on Friday to build a TNT production plant in western Kentucky that will become the first domestic source for the explosive material in decades, officials said…

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That this is necessary is almost unbelievable but seems to be on a par with much of the the "post" Cold War "Peace Dividend." We have been progressively handing over our military resource providing to foreigners or single sources.

Oh good!

Now all the bad people that have crossed the border illegally can target it.

Not good, not good at all!

Does the US have facilities to make other types of explosive, such as HMX and RDX?

We were buying TNT from Poland – cheap and high quality. Suffice to say demand exceeded supply.

pjm

Where's JJ Walker when you need him?

Am I dating myself?

I live in NEPA in the heart of coal country.
Back in the woods east of Pittston and Wilkes Barre, there were "explosive factories". They had very flimsy wooden construction, so when the explosions came (that's like Honkytonk bands talking about "When the fights break out…), the walls would blow out and preserve the machinery.
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But that was back in the Heroic Age of coal mining.

Sounds like the military may put to use the military depots to store the TNT. They have plenty of room since all of the chemical weapons have finally finished.