Exclusive: Inside the factory that makes the Army's rifle rounds
Exclusive: Inside the factory that makes the Army's rifle rounds
Just about every round fired from a British Army rifle comes from a BAE Systems factory in Cheshire, which makes around one million every day.
The company has a £2.4bn contract with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide all its munitions for the next 13 years.
It also supplies much of NATO, and the cartridges are delivered as far away as India and Australia.
Forces News’ Hannah King was given a tour.
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they should double that amount.
I have heard a lot of "Ehrr" in this video
Delivering freedom to russian conscripts at 1200 m/s. You love to see it.
Too bad that we are not allowed to have guns like most of the modern world does. Everything is made hard in England through non english politicians forcing laws through for the better of other nations. Atleast the invading enemy knows it can get bullets when it takes over civy population.
1:49 you know you could focus the camera but nah right? lmao
Yeah I’ll take a pallet please
Assualt bullets should be illegal
some people want to scrooge mcduck in a pool of gold. me personally, a pool full of 7.62 NATO lol
If you work at one of these weapon factory’s now’s a good time to go on strike and demand $400 dollars a hour. Actually while you’re at it just demand that you get paid in solid gold and silver.
The seed of Cain
Light up pallets is great idea!
Guy needs to work on his " Uuuhhs"
Very interesting, thank you.
Hello ,can you show how build a TRACER BULLET??
“Theres something happening here… what it is aint exactly clear…”
Surprisingly a lot of similarities to how an aluminium beverage can is made! Wat h that video by the engineer guy!
Impressive technology!
This is a bad idea these modern governments have to put all the stuff for making essential equipment under one roof instead of spread over the country. Its just asking for major problems if something major kicks off and that one factory is took out.
Make peace not ware.
I wish they would sell in the UK for different calibres, for licence holders, instead of us paying for expensive foreign ammo.
Good stuff 🐸🔱
Finally someone who doesn´t call it "a bullet" or "bullets" ..
Now the sad thing is, of course, that if it never ended life, it would not have to save lives, neither … think about that.
When they said “they end lives and they save lives” I thought they were talking about abortion
traceable ammunition, no thanks…
The .308 Winchester is a very viable and efficient chambering. Able to rival the 30/06 Springfield with 150 grain projectiles. In a short action platform.
Worked in a factory that did these rounds , back in the 80’s. Presses were way more obsolete ,imports from WWII. These are a progressive deep drawn presses. Maybe Waterbury ones. The dies made in this company’s took room. The reject grooves in the shells , and the end flange , I am surprised thry are still being machined.
Protect our nation? What a joke, we can’t even protect our own borders.
I bet they’re all strip and cavity searched by the a police commissar every hour.
Britain doomed
Stupid as hell how a country wo is afraid to let their citizens have firearms for defense produces ammunition.
This factory hold so many people’s lives
Never put all of your eggs in one basket.
WOOW, at 6:13 the QR code just says "Hello :)"
In the us we got like 60 of these, just for us to target shoot in our backyard 😂
I got big contracts Ukraine and USA and Australia! Millions dollars contract do million but need double! Get ready boys!
Waste of taxpayer dollars. The constitution is pretty adverse to having a standing army, it was supposed to mean the people, not the government, Which is the Army, and the like. Can’t afford to help it’s citizens are in need, especially if white, but it can sure pump out millions of rounds, on the taxpayers dime of course.
This is nothing compared to what we put out in the States .
Good job telling the enemies exactly where all your ammo is made
The biggest issue is stated right at the beginning of the video: "Every round fired from a British army rifle comes from this factory".
Man British people get on my nerves for some reason, can’t even watch.
in defence hahahha that must make them feel better about what they do.. sure alot of those end up in spurious places
Sooo how many of factories do they have scattered around
End use: To kill…
They are producing M193? Gross. Lol
Awesome, 60% of their stocks are in a single storage facility and most of the rounds made in a single plant…
Maybe we should invade the UK, all it takes is a handfull of bombs and they can start fighting with wooden swords.
Mad fallout vibes
Makes tools for death then you comes out and talk about terrorism?????? You are the only terrorist… you better get ready cuz Putin is
why are they making so much ammo if the Uk hasn’t been under threat for 80 years? you can’t ethically ban your citizens from owning weapons while sending ammo and weapons to the rest of the world?
Need to ramp up to 365 days a year production. This is what the new budget funding should be going on.
The merchant of death.
The guy doing the on screen visuals must have had an extra cup of coffee that day. Never have I seen small bits of metal getting cleaned turn into an action movie.