arms factories
Munitions production facilities
Arms factories are facilities that manufacture weapons and military equipment—guns, ammunition, bombs, tanks, and the like.
The term often appears in wartime contexts or discussions of defense industry: The bombing campaign targeted arms factories throughout the region.
Also called munitions factories or weapons plants.
- munitionMilitary weapon or projectile
- weaponryMilitary equipment collectively
- ordnanceMilitary weapons collectively
- gunworksFirearm production facility
- heavy artilleryLarge military ordnance
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- war productionwar production, wartime production, defense plants, military equipment, military supplies
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