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The sale was completed in March 1982 for the revised figure of US$336.1 million. [1] Renamed General Dynamics Land Systems, [2] General Dynamics, accustomed to paying its factory workers lower wages than Chrysler Defense, balked at the union's proposed wage increases. [3] The division operates the Lima Army Tank Plant and General Dynamics ...
General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDLS) is an automotive and arms manufacturer spread across Europe, with a headquarter in Madrid, Spain. It is a business unit of General Dynamics which consolidated in one structure all European subsidiaries of GDLS.
General Dynamics. General Dynamics Corporation ( GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of 2020, it was the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world by arms sales, and fifth largest in the United States by total sales. [2]
Force Protection Europe Limited ( FPE) was the European subsidiary of Force Protection Inc, which was acquired by General Dynamics in 2011. [3] The UK-based company developed the Foxhound, a light-weight mine-protected military vehicle, which was developed to replace the Snatch Land Rover. [2] FPE won a £180 million contract from the British ...
Mobile Protected Firepower, based on the General Dynamics Griffin. The Mobile Protected Firepower ( MPF) is a U.S. Army program to procure a combat vehicle that is capable of providing mobile, protected, direct fire offensive capability. [1] The projected vehicle has been designated the M10 Booker, [2] and will according to description ...
Operational. range. 250–350 mi (400–560 km) Maximum speed. 45 mph (72 km/h) The M10 Booker is an armored fighting vehicle under development by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) for the United States Army, developed from the GDLS Griffin II armored fighting vehicle as the winner of its Mobile Protected Firepower program in June 2022.
In March 2023 the MOD said it had resumed payments to General Dynamics Land Systems UK (GDLS-UK), having halted them more than two years previously. The project has cost around £5.5bn so far, although according to the MOD "the whole programme remains within its originally approved budget level". Variants. Apollo armoured recovery vehicle
The General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) M60-2000 or 120S was an upgrade of the M60 tank. The development of the M60-2000 was initiated primarily due to the large number of M60 main battle tanks in service with many Middle Eastern nations unable to afford a sufficient force of more modern main battle tanks. The upgrade was marketed at those M60 ...