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# BAE Systems lifts UK 155mm shell output sixteenfold by summer 2025
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-04-21-bae-systems-shell-capacity-increase/
- Published: 2025-04-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:01:49.000Z
- Description: BAE Systems said it has invested over GBP 150 million since 2022 to raise 155mm shell output at its Glascoed plant sixteenfold by summer 2025, part of a wider push to expand UK munitions production capacity.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #verified, #ai-drafted

Verified AI-drafted [BAE Systems press release, 21 April 2025](https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/major-breakthroughs-in-uk-munitions-production?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that the sixteenfold capacity increase has been reached; BAE's own target is summer 2025.

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