There's been no U.S. maker of TNT for 39 years--and we need it

 Very few Americans know anything about artillery shells--and fair enough.  The explosive in those shells is TNT.

It may surprise you to learn that TNT hasn't been made in the U.S. since 1986.

Three days after the November election the U.S. Army finally issued a $435 million contract to establish a TNT manufacturing plant in Kentucky.  Spoiler: it won't be producing TNT until November of 2028.

In the meantime, high demand for artillery shells to give to Ukraine has had ordnance makers scrambling to find overseas suppliers.  Hmmmm....

Now you'd think when the bribem regime started sending shiploads of shells to Ukraine, vastly increasing the demand for TNT, someone in the vast DoD labyrinth would have said "We might wanna get a domestic source for TNT, eh?"

Of course either no one said that, or no one in the regime listened.  Same result, eh?

So...they could have let the contract for this plant in November of 2022, and the plant would be on-line around November of 2026 instead of 2028.

Hey, no big deal.  Chances of the U.S. getting in a shooting war during those two years are reeeally small, eh?

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