Somerset, an important supplier of equipment of United Kingdom, is a strategic position surrounded by the Royal Ordinance Factory, which produces food and medicine, and Templecombe, which has Thales Underwater Systems.
Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) was the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories during and after the Second World War. The Royal Ordnance Factories were set up with six generic types of factories: Engineering ROFs; Explosive ROFs; Filling Factories, including small arms ammunition (SAA) Filling Factories; Medium Machine Shops, specifically ROF Patricroft; Rifles ROFs, specifically ROF Fazakerley and ROF Maltby; and, Small Arms Ammunition (SAA) Factories. 
