Small-caliber ammunition
Lake City is described by the Army as a main supplier of DoD small- and medium-caliber ammunition and as producing more than 1 billion small-caliber rounds per year.
Sources: READY TO GOCOBuilt by archive
U.S. Army ammunition plant production Weapon Systems
U.S. Army ammunition plant production is the catalog facet for the Army's government-owned, contractor-operated munitions plants that manufacture, load, assemble, pack, and demilitarize ammunition, propellants, explosives, and legacy ordnance components across the United States.
1 weapon systemsJMC describes the Army munitions industrial base as a network of depots, arsenals, munition centers, production plants, and related facilities spread across the continental United States. Within that network, GOCO plants produce, store, distribute, and demilitarize munitions while private contractors operate the plants under Army management.
For this catalog, the builder groups the Army's ammunition-production footprint into a single archive facet so connected entries can point to the broader government production system instead of a commercial prime. The emphasis is on plant-level munitions manufacturing, packaging, and legacy ordnance production rather than on battlefield use.
Notable Systems
Load-assemble-pack artillery lines
The Army describes Iowa Army Ammunition Plant as a load-assemble-pack facility whose production line includes artillery, grenades, tank ammunition, and C4 demolition charges.
Sources: READY TO GOCOPropellants and energetics
The Army describes Radford Army Ammunition Plant as a producer of propellants and propellant ingredients used in rocket manufacturing.
Sources: READY TO GOCOBuilder History
Wartime munitions production base expands
Army industrial-base history traces the modern ammunition-production network to the World War II era, when wartime depots and production plants expanded rapidly across the United States.
Sources: JMC installation handbook, History of the ammunition industrial base
Army publishes modernization plan
The Army Ammunition Plant Modernization Plan describes six active GOCO ammunition production facilities and sets modernization objectives for them.
Sources: Army ammunition plant modernization plan
Website links
This profile intentionally treats Army ammunition plant production as a catalog facet rather than a single corporate manufacturer. Army sources use individual plant names and GOCO status for the underlying facilities, so the profile groups them under the production network used by the catalog.
Builder Sources
- JMC installation handbookPublisher: U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command | Note: Supports the Army munitions industrial base, its network of depots, arsenals, munition centers, production plants, GOCO operations, and the fact that JMC manages production, storage, distribution, and demilitarization across the network. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
- READY TO GOCOPublisher: U.S. Army Security Assistance Command | Note: Supports the role of GOCO Army ammunition plants in producing ammunition, energetic and inert materiel components, and complete rounds, and identifies the active plant network under modernization. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
- Army ammunition plant modernization planPublisher: U.S. Army Security Assistance Command | Note: Supports the modernization framework for the six active GOCO Army ammunition production facilities and the Army's ongoing investment in the industrial base. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
- Lake City production articlePublisher: The United States Army | Note: Supports Lake City as a major Army ammunition-production site and illustrates the continuing scale of Army ammunition manufacturing within the broader network. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
- Lake City worker photoPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and public-domain status for a U.S. Army photo showing packaging work at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, used here as a representative Army ammunition-production image. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
Category
Munitions
Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.
