Contractor: FN Manufacturing

Cost per item: about $4,000

Size of 2007 contract: $48.3 million

The Army’s primary machine gun can spit 850 bullets per minute. FN Herstal developed the gun in the early 1980s for the Pentagon, which wanted a lightweight automatic weapon (the one here is 17 pounds). The Belgian company’s South Carolina factory makes about 550 a month for the Army.

Full article is here:

Weapons of Mass Production
John Hockenberry 
Portfolio, May 2007 Issue
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/international-news/
portfolio/2007/03/29/Weapons-of-Mass-Production

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