Didnt Kentucky just blow up a factory just this week, Mitch is trying to up those employee death numbers. Good thing the south is trying to get those children workers laws.
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Where is the TNT produced now?
And in unrelated news, how much security is this facility gonna staff, cause things are feeling dicey.
Some Googling doesn't yield great answers but looks like Poland, Australia, India are the main ones supplying the USA. China makes a lot for itself too.
The current supply chain for the crucial explosive material is entirely reliant on overseas sources, it said.
Yup, very vague. Probably not UK or France. Mexico maybe?
I understand the move, and from a defense logistics POV it is entirely reasonable to do this, I just wanna know a bit more about what precipitated this reconsideration of the supply chain.
Would they say "overseas" if it were Mexico (or anywhere else in NA)? Honest question...
Sometimes? Its somewhat analagous to "foreign". At least in my circles.
For mining.... Right?
I’m sure some of it will be used in mines
I don't think the army operates a lot of mines
Landmines
I don't think that the military uses much TNT directly, but military explosives may be derived from TNT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT
Yeah, there's a list under "Applications".
Composition B, for example, is a mix of TBT and other stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_B
Composition B (Comp B), also known as Hexotol and Hexolite (among others), is a high explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT. It is used as the main explosive filling in artillery projectiles, rockets, land mines, hand grenades, and various other munitions.[1
Trinitrotoluene, or TNT, is used in artillery shells, bombs and grenades.