Tennessee Explosion Exposes the Civilian Cost of America’s Reliance on Private Munitions Plants On Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, at about 7:45 a.m. local time, a massive explosion occurred at the Accurate Energetic Systems (AES)...
What’s the Future of Kentucky’s Army Depot? Workers Fear Layoffs, Reductions A representative for District 1888 of the IAM Union said in an interview that there has been discussion about merging the...
An Army Ammunition Plant's Bullets Keep Showing Up in Mass Shootings. Lawmakers Want Answers. A New York Times investigation found that ammunition from a plant in Missouri has been used in at least 12 high-profile mass...
Marine Corps Wants Lighter .50 Caliber Ammunition to Reduce the Burden of Weight on the Battlefield The desire to reduce the .50 caliber ammo's weight is part of the Corps' continuing effort to lighten its infantry and...
'We've Got a Ways to Go': Pentagon Seeks Massive Ammo Boost as War in Ukraine Rages On Right now, the Army produces about 20,000 155mm artillery rounds per month. That's a significant boost from 14,000 produced...
US Military Weighs Sending Ukraine Weapons and Ammo Seized from Gunrunners U.S. and partner forces have regularly intercepted small boats attempting to illegally smuggle guns, ammunition, and...
Russia Is Running Out of Fresh Ammo and May Need to Use 40-Year-Old Shells Moscow is faced with relying more heavily on degraded rockets and shells, which could ratchet up risks to its own troops and...
How the Army Is Getting the Lead Out and Going to 'Green' Ammo The Army is getting the lead out -- of small-caliber ammunition, that is. Tungsten eventually will replace lead in all small...
Ammunition Shelves Bare as Gun Sales Continue to Soar The U.S. military is not affected by the shortage.
More Marines Will Test Lighter Polymer-Cased Ammunition as Experiments Expand to Fleet Marines will get to see for themselves how lighter rounds hold up in the field.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![The Army's current training ammunition, known as the M-862 Short Range Training System will eventually be replaced with a new, "green" ammunition that will contain no lead and be more environment friendly. (U.S. Army photo)](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/news/equipment/2017/08/m862-short-range-training-system-800x533.jpg?itok=NDLUwtrZ "The Army's current training ammunition, known as the M-862 Short Range Training System, will eventually be replaced with a new, "green" ammunition that will contain no lead and be more environment friendly. (U.S. Army photo)")
