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Defense Specialty Metals

Overview

AOT has numerous advanced specialty metal capabilities including powder metallurgy, primary metal processing, metal casting, heat treatment, precision CNC machining and milling, forging and swaging. AOT specialty metal products have been proven on the battlefield, in space, on the golf course, in high-performance racing, and in Olympic events.

Key Features

Materials

AOT produces a number of materials to meet industry demand, including: tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, rhenium, titanium, depleted uranium, nickel, aluminum, copper, metal-matrix composites, metal polymer composites, reactive materials and custom alloys.

Ordnance Components and Assemblies

AOT produces a large variety of ordnance components and assemblies such as: small, medium and large caliber kinetic energy penetrators, fragmentation devices, shaped charges, explosively formed penetrators, warhead components and defensive panels used to defeat incoming mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.

Heavy Metal Components

AOT manufactures heavy metal components for the energy industry that support down-hole logging, well perforation, radiation shielding and provide inertial mass weights.

Latest News

L3Harris prepares land in Camden, Arkansas, for new roads, installation of utilities and construction of new facilities as it marks another major milestone in executing the $215.6M cooperative agreement the company signed with the DoD.

Editorial | 12. 18. 2024

Factories of the Future: L3Harris Builds on Production Increases with Cooperative Agreement

Building on recent solid rocket motor production increases, L3Harris marks another major milestone in executing the $215.6M cooperative agreement the company signed with the DoD to support increased demand for tactical missiles, like Javelin, Stinger and GMLRS.

L3Harris prepares land in Camden, Arkansas, for new roads, installation of utilities and construction of new facilities as it marks another major milestone in executing the $215.6M cooperative agreement the company signed with the DoD.

Editorial | 12. 18. 2024

Factories of the Future: L3Harris Builds on Production Increases with Cooperative Agreement

A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam as part of Flight Experiment Mission-02. The Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with U.S. Department of Defense partners, successfully conducted FEM-02 on December 10, 2024. Photo credit: Missile Defense Agency

Press release | 12. 12. 2024

L3Harris Plays Key Role in Successful Missile Defense Test

L3Harris’ new ammonium perchlorate (AP) processing facility will enable the company’s Camden site to more efficiently screen and handle the ingredient used to make solid rocket motor propellant.

Editorial | 11. 14. 2024

L3Harris Technologies Begins Operations at New Solid Rocket Motor Propellant Processing Facility

L3Harris Solid Rocket Motors

Press release | 11. 07. 2024

L3Harris Solid Rocket Motors Soar in Successful Flight Test

From sub-orbital space to the black depths of the sea, L3Harris is equipped to support multi-domain defense capabilities. (Photo Credit: L3Harris)

Editorial | 10. 08. 2024

From Sea to Space: L3Harris Provides Multi-domain Defense Solutions

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