Italy’s Avio expands to fill US Army solid rocket motor orders
October 14, 2024
U.S. Marines fire a HIMARS rocket during a March 2024 exercise in South Korea. (Cpl. Davin Tenbusch/Marine Corps)
ROME — Italy’s biggest rocket and missile motor manufacturer, Avio, is set to triple production within five years as the American military and industry look to it to ease a chronic production shortfall in the United States, the firm’s CEO has said.
In July, Avio signed with…