US Navy taps AE Shoals to help modernize critical explosives production

US Navy taps AE Shoals to help modernize critical explosives production

AE Shoals has been chosen to help modernize the US Navy (The Navy) “energetics” production capacity. This is not about energy weapons, but rather the Navy’s ability to produce explosives, propellants, and other chemical-based energetic materials. This includes things like explosives for warheads, demolition charges, rocket and missile propellant, and pyrotechnics like flares, igniters, etc. At present, the US Navy relies on old and constrained n…