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They’ve been producing and engineering military vehicles in this Detroit suburb at what locals simply call “the Tank Plant” since World War II.

The facility dates to 1940 and built 25,000 tanks and a total of 44,000 vehicles before production ended in the 1990s.

The site lives on as the home of the Tank-automotive and Armaments Command TACOM, which has responsibility for the life cycle of U.S. Army and Marine Corps vehicles. The Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC, is co-located in Warren.



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