BAE Systems says it's nailed a way to meet the UK's need for a lot of ammunition

Trevor Taylor, director of the Defence, Industries & Society Programme at the Royal United Services Institute, outlined the advantages of the new process. A small-scale process avoids safety risks associated with a single large production plant, Taylor told BI. He added that the company's ambition is likely to be "to control costs at lower production rates, and to be able to surge production levels by operating more hours when needed without a large labor force that would be idle in less pressing times."