![]() In 2017, the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center was producing about one upgraded M-1 tank a month a year later it was producing about 11, according to the Los Angeles Times. The deep sequestration budget cuts nearly shuttered the plant in 2012, and tank production languished under the Obama administration, which oversaw counter-insurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where a large force of tanks wasn't needed. The plant became the sole US tank factory in when the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant closed in 1996. General Dynamics Land Systems bought Chrysler Defense in 1982. The plant's workforce is about 580 and growing, thanks to Trump's huge defense-spending increases. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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