“Polish TNT is exported entirely abroad and the bombs produced from it fall on the heads of innocent civilians in Gaza and Yemen,” Konieczny told the Guardian. The Polish factory is estimated to produce between 10,000 and 12,000 tonnes of TNT a year. It is not known precisely what proportion of exported Polish TNT is being used in Ukraine or Gaza, or retained for use by the US army. The US is not permitted to buy TNT from China, and the environmental hazards involved in producing the explosive make building a TNT factory a formidable exercise. General Dynamics, the fifth-largest defence company in the world, has been producing the MK-80 series at its Garland Operations facility near Dallas, but the Garland facility was recently taken over by a US subsidiary of the Turkish defence company Repkon.

Source: The Guardian November 22, 2025 00:15 UTC