The following dossier contains descriptions of all Joint Munitions Command production, storage, and distribution facilities from the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant to the east coast. It does not include dedicated JMC demilitarization facilities.
Each document is a guide to the facility location, its purpose, its function and known links within military and civilian arms manufacture, and its connection to this wider network via military-designated strategic rail (STRACNET). These facilities are not wholly dependent on rail for shipping, but the nature of the military equipment they produce guarantees that much of it must move by rail between manufacturing locations and to east coast ports for transport to Israel or supporting US installations and vessels in the region.
These facilities covered here are, from west to east:
McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, McAlester, Oklahoma
Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Middletown, Iowa
Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, Independence, Missouri
Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Quad City Cartridge Case Facility/Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois
Crane Army Ammunition Activity, Crane, Indiana
Anniston Munitions Center, Anniston, Alabama
Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Kingsport, Tennessee
Blue Grass Army Depot, Richmond, Kentucky
Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Radford, Virginia
Letterkenny Munitions Center, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, Scranton, Pennsylvania
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Our initial focus on the eastern sections of this network is motivated by reporting on specific chains of munitions production involving these plants, as well as their proximity to the east coast ports. If your region is not covered in this breakdown, don’t worry, the work awaits for you as well. Many civilian arms manufacturers, as well as Air Force plants, are also served by STRACNET. Unredacted state by state maps are publicly available at https://www. sddc. army. mil/sites/TEA/Functions/SpecialAssistant/Pages/RailroadsNationalDefense .aspx with many fascinating locations marked. You, too, can see where tracks cross rivers and go through tunnels in satellite images. Our – and your – centralized knowledge base of this fragile infrastructure network will only continue to grow.
We enclose as well our perspective on methods for targeted rail disruption.
This is only the beginning.