munitions plant
Military production facility
A munitions plant is a factory that manufactures military weapons, ammunition, and explosives.
During wartime, munitions plants often operate around the clock and may employ workers who would otherwise not work in heavy industry: Women flooded into munitions plants during World War II.
The term carries connotations of industrial-scale war production.
- ammunitionWeapon projectiles and charges
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- arsenalStockpile of munitions
- bombsExplosive munitions dropped
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- military facilitiesmilitary base, command center, army base, air force base, headquarters
- munitions plantsmunitions factory, arms factory, weapons factory, arsenal, armory
- Military arsenalsarmories, ammunition depot, weapons storage, ammunition storage, munitions factories
- military installationsmilitary base, bases, army base, forts, naval base
- naval ordnancenaval guns, torpedoes, naval artillery, naval mines, depth charges
munitions planttoy factory
Plaything production facility
textile mill · food processing plant · furniture factory · candy factory · electronics factory
munition, plant, plants, planted, planting, planter, planters, plantation, plantations