The Pentagon Spent $533 Million With General Dynamics on an Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

Taxpayers Spent More Than $500 Million for General Dynamics’ Nonfunctioning Artillery Factory

by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American: A major U.S. defense contractor received more than $500 million from U.S. taxpayers for an artillery-shell plant that produced not “a single usable shell.” Investigative-reporting website ProPublica revealed that General Dynamics received that boatload of money to produce shells at a plant in Mesquite, Texas. It hired a Turkish subcontractor […]

$500 Million and Zero Shells: Inside America’s Troubled Defense Production Machine

There is a good Russian word, pokazukha, meaning a show put on for appearances, and it perfectly describes the real state of affairs in the American military-industrial complex. But Russia should not let its guard down. Plastic Shells at the Texas Plant Opening Surprised No One The General Dynamics plant in Mesquite, Texas, which received more than half a billion dollars from the Pentagon to produce 155 mm ammunition, has completely failed to me…

The Pentagon Spent $533 Million With General Dynamics on an Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

Republished with permission from ProPublica, by Jesse Coburn A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former workers there. This wasn’t ideal, as the plant was supposed to be churning out urgently needed artillery shells for Ukraine. The robots, giant metal arms with clamps fo…