Two factors have seen the Lima's tank plant roar back to life: Trump's massive defense-spending hikes and the US's assessment that rivalries with China and Russia are now the country's foremost threat.ĭeterring a major power like them may rely on the US Army fielding the upgraded, 80-ton Abrams tanks now rolling off Lima's assembly lines. In 2017, the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center was producing about one upgraded M-1 tank a month a year later it was producing about 11, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The deep sequestration budget cuts nearly shuttered the plant in 2012, and tank production languished under the Obama administration, which oversaw counter-insurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where a large force of tanks wasn't needed. The plant became the sole US tank factory in when the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant closed in 1996.
General Dynamics Land Systems bought Chrysler Defense in 1982. The plant's workforce is about 580 and growing, thanks to Trump's huge defense-spending increases. AAV-7 (LVTP-7)Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle.
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