AA takes Ngape in Magwe district including important ordnance factories. Text excerpt copied and pasted.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/arakan-army-defeats-myanmar-junta-base-in-magwe-region-rout.html

Magwe hosts over a dozen of the junta’s ordnance factories, known by the Burmese acronym KaPaSa. KaPaSa 14, which produces missiles and electronic printed circuit boards (PCBs), is located in Ngape town.

The bodies of junta troops killed in recent fighting with the Arakan Army in Rakhine State. / AA Info Desk

Beyond lie six more ordnance factories – KaPaSa 2, 10, 12, 13, 20 and 21 – on the west bank of the Irrawaddy in Magwe Region.

Troops under the 99th LID were dispatched to Magwe starting December 6 as the junta struggled to defend its Western Command in Ann Township on the Rakhine-Magwe border. Over 1,300 junta soldiers were reportedly dispatched to the border as of Jan. 29, but only around 700 remain after hundreds were killed in action, surrendered or fled, according to sources on the ground.

The AA has now seized 14 out of Rakhine State’s 17 townships, as well as Paletwa township in neighboring Chin State, since launching a major anti-regime offensive in November 2023.

It has also been making rapid advances in Bago, Magwe and Ayeyarwady regions.