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Prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday charging two area men with federal sabotage for allegedly stealing tons of copper from an ammunition manufacturing plant.

Charles Dale Osborn, 45, of Odessa, Mo., and Timothy Duane Langevin, 36, of Independence, were charged in the 10-count indictment. If sentenced to the maximum on each of their respective counts, Osborn would face 245 years in federal prison and Langevin would face 35 years.

The material — described as “bullet cups” in the indictment — was to have been used to produce about 1.5 million rounds of copper-jacketed ammunition for troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to federal court records.

“The diversion of the bullet cups interfered with and obstructed the ability of the United States to prepare for and carry on war activities by interrupting the supply of 7.62mm rounds of ammunition to the United States Army,” the indictment alleged.

The volume of stolen material accounts for more than two weeks’ production of 7.62mm ammunition at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, from which it was stolen, prosecutors alleged.