It produces tracked and wheeled military vehicles, artillery, ammunition and naval weapons.
Licences granted in the past year include a wide range of hardware, from components for naval guns and drones to ammunition, submarines and combat aircraft parts.
Munitions transported through the magazine included bombs, shells, naval mines, torpedoes and small arms ammunition.
Then Beijing designated 6,000 square miles of the Taiwan Strait an "exclusion zone," and launched a military exercise involving 150,000 People's Liberation Army soldiers, 300 war planes, a naval flotilla, and immense quantities of live ammunition.
Nisshin would be joined by the seaplane carrier to deliver 728 soldiers, four large howitzers, two field guns, one anti-aircraft gun, and a large assortment of ammunition and other equipment from the Japanese naval bases in the Shortland Islands and at Buin, Bougainville, to Guadalcanal.
Such types of ammunition are extremely versatile and are fired from ground vehicles, naval ships, and various types of aircraft -- both helicopters and fixed-wing models.
Reynolds was one of the naval officers who was sent to investigate the Port Chicago disaster, in which an ammunition ship had blown up in the harbor.
A Pentagon report last year noted that in May 2008, two Chinese warships were supplied with ammunition and fuel at a designated spot off Zhejiang Province by fishing vessels that belonged to the naval militia.
Among the other boats were fast-attack craft and some built for naval suicide-missions.According to the army, whose reports cannot be verified, it has also found improvised mortar launchers, ammunition dumps, sophisticated transmission equipment, armour-plated vehicles and heavy machinery used to dig deep "moats" around Tiger bases.
A few miles north of the naval base, the Glen Douglas munitions facility is found, a secretive network of hillside bunkers capable of holding 40,000 cubic metres of ammunition.
