Thousands of skilled men and women of the North American steel industry work to produce high quality, cost competitive products that are used by the military in various applications ranging from aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines to Patriot and Stinger missiles, armor plate for tanks and field artillery pieces as well as every major military aircraft in production today. Some examples of steel use in defense applications are:
- The USS New York was built with 24 tons of scrap steel reclaimed and recycled from the World Trade Center.
- The USS George H.W. Bush, an aircraft carrier named after the 41st President, contains 47,000 tons of structural steel and serves as home to 6,000 Navy personnel.
- Steel is a strategic material needed to harden existing U.S. infrastructure and installations.
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