Construction on a Norwegian defense contractor’s missile factory in James City County will start by mid-year, with the first munitions rolling out of production in 2028.
Leaders from Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace Inc., alongside Virginia and county representatives, officially broke ground Friday on the new plant in Toano. It will be the more-than-200-year-old company’s first missile assembly facility in the United States.
The 150,000 square foot space will also be the first tenant of a more than 2 million square foot industrial park. Kongsberg expects to employ at least 180 people at the factory to manufacture two types of cruise missiles to sell to the U.S. military, which will be armed at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown…