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ammunition you're looking at a factory inland Oki County Arkansas it belongs to Remington the ammunition manufactured here is sold in many countries around the world per year the company produces 2.6 billion cartridges and about a hundred million reloading supplies such as shell casings and bullets material consumption here is enormous up to 20,000 tons of leads and five and a half thousand tons of copper a year letters delivered to the plants in the form of blocks they're rolled into cylinders and then sent to the fabrication line here it takes the form of a wire from which the bullets are later made copper is used for the production of lead bullet shells it's supplied to the plants in the form of one and a half meter high rolls it undergoes a fortune process for the manufacture of shell casings the metal passes through special presses that make the head in various steps then the lathes make the hole for the primer and form the circular groove at the bottom now the workpiece is heated and passes through a machine that will give the shell its final shape all these processes are automated and it's this equipment that makes it possible to achieve enormous production scales before the shell casing is ready it needs to be cleaned and ground special tanks with chemical solutions are used for this purpose after cleaning the metal is heated up again to get rid of the metal fatigue that invariably occurs when the material is pulled and pressed for a long time when the casing is ready the cap is placed in it the gun powder is filled in and then the bullet is inserted the ammunition is ready and the conveyor belts send it to the packaging shop where people are responsible for filling each tanks now you'll see how the main battle tank of the United States the m1 Abrams is assembled this vehicle has been produced since 1980 and the cost of one tank varies from five and a half to six point 1 million dollars even though today people are increasingly using automated equipment for production the construction of Tanks is mostly a manual process more than 12,000 different parts are installed in the finished tank frame of course the factory can't afford to assemble only one tank at a time therefore the construction area is amazingly large in this case it has the length of two football fields before the tank is assembled it passes through 16 stations h1 responsible for one aspect of the vehicle for example there's an electric wiring station a hydraulic station and a weaponry station interestingly the tank spends about a day and a half at each of these stations and all this time the workers adjust the parts without putting down their tools for example at this station the foreman supplies the tank with 14 wheels which ensure optimal stability at this point the tank already weighs 25 tons by the end of the assembly it will weigh 36 tons the most important parts of the tank are installed almost at the very end of production these are the engine and the tracks the workers carefully lower the three thousand eight hundred and sixty kilogram engine into these special opening each track weighs approximately two tons and 270 kilograms the weight of the two caterpillars that are mounted on the tank is four times the weight of a minivan and as you can guess the process is complex and painstaking at this stage the tank is almost ready finally the onboard equipment on the computer providing one of the most modern fire control systems are installed artillery shells only truly powerful and destructive weapons can strike enemy buildings and fortifications artillery shells are a weapon of destruction created specifically for these purposes they can be used to destroy armored vehicles trenches falsifications Garrison's fences and even buildings an artillery shell consists of two parts the casing and the explosive itself the video shows a shell casing manufacturing plants in value ava's serbia the factory is basically a forging plant but we'll talk a little bit more about the process high quality steel is supplied in blocks which are then cut and carefully measured to ensure that each workpiece has the exact same size then the forging process begins and it consists of several steps the metal is heated and then shaped into a shell then the workpiece it's pressed to achieve the optimum steel strength when the shell cools down they are sandblasted to achieve a smooth ground surface helicopters here is the mcdonnell-douglas eh 64 Apache the main attack helicopter of the US Army which has been produced since the mid 80s in spite of the fact that the vehicles been in operation for a long time today the Apache is the most widespread attack helicopter in the world as with tanks helicopters are built entirely by hand by trained highly skilled craftsmen this giant helicopter Factory is located in Mesa Arizona it's size is comparable to the size of seven residential blocks on an area of a hundred and eighty-five thousand square meters there's a research center a production hall as well as a test area every year 32 helicopters are created here besides modifying and updating the old ones in order to turn an empty fuselage into a fully fledged helicopter a hundred and sixty employees work tirelessly for three months the production hole consists of 15 stations when one station finishes working the helicopter is manually moved to the next one it's noteworthy that it spends about five days at each station first the hull is processed a fuel tank is installed when the cockpit is equipped with the necessary equipment then the engines the rotors the electronics and the sensors are installed leaving the weapons for the end here we can see how the mi 8 mi 17 and mi 38 helicopters are produced at a plot in Kazan Russia these are Russian multi-purpose and civilian transport helicopters the main unique feature of this plant is that all three models of helicopters are manufactured almost simultaneously just like with the ah-64 Apache all the work here is done manually people can install a large number of components in a limited space better than a machine Swiss Army knives Victorinox is a swiss company there's been manufacturing now since 1884 today it is the only company that supplies knives for the Swiss Army soldiers keep one to eight different tools with them a blade a can opener and a cap opener are mandatory there can also be a small or large knife a metal saw a wood saw a Phillips screwdriver scissors a wavy blade a Milan spike pliers and even a booth cleaner the knife is at least thirty percent chromium which gives it the ability to withstand corrosion around 2,500 tons of chromium are imported from France to Germany every year the blades of the knives are pressed from a three millimeter thick steel strip the hydraulic mechanism presses down on the material with the pressure of 40 tons different metals of them used four different tools for example the knives are made of particularly hard steel screwdrivers are made of softer steel so they won't break under pressure the hardness of the material changes depending on the amounts of carbon in the composition after forging the knives are then polished they spend about eight hours in a tank with ceramic chips and water the final hardness of the blades is achieved by heat treatments in an oven at a temperature of 1050 degrees Celsius at the same time as the knives other tools and plastic handles are also produced interestingly the knives are assembled by hand craftsmen lighted screws in layers one by one and then the equipment forces them together the knives are almost ready and the only step left is connecting them to the handles