An early Wednesday morning explosion rocked the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems facility in Camden, Arkansas, injuring at least two people and leaving one person missing.
Local media outlet Camden News quoted General Dynamics in a statement as saying:
“Today at 8:15 am CDT, an incident involving pyrotechnics occurred at the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems facility in Camden, Arkansas. At this time, we are working with first responders and can confirm the incident resulted in at least two injuries and one missing individual.”
The 880,000-square-foot weapons factory, located about 86 miles south of Little Rock, is a “leader in the high-rate production” of weapons, including “Hydra-70 2.75-inch rocket, Hellfire and Javelin missiles, the Modular Artillery Charge System and various mortar munitions,” according to the defense firm’s website.
I’m sure it is just your typical industrial accident. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Happy 4th of July courtesy of the CCP
three years to fab a Javelin, and we gave 76%+ of our inventory to Ukraine. Yeah Bidum!
Perhaps an accident due to haste. Perhaps DEI. Or, perhaps Putin. Were I in Vlad’s shoes, this is exactly what I’d be doing.
I live a few miles as the crow flies from this and other plants like this. They kill one or two every few years out there from accident or human error. The raw forms in that kind of production are difficult to work with, much more so than the finished product. My opinion from the little vid I saw and local chatter this appeared to be as many of the others, just the nature of the beast if you will. It looked to me like only one building was involved which means containment worked as designed. I could not tell how far the fire spread from the vid though. Smells to me like a production line foul-up rather than malicious intent, unless proven otherwise.
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