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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]
The RIM-66 Standard MR (SM-1MR/SM-2MR) is a medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM), with a secondary role as an anti-ship missile, developed for the United States Navy (USN). A member of the Standard Missile family of weapons, the SM-1 was developed as a replacement for the RIM-2 Terrier and RIM-24 Tartar that were deployed in the 1950s on a ...
The RIM-116 was developed by General Dynamics Pomona and Valley Systems divisions under a July 1976 agreement with Denmark and West Germany (the General Dynamics missile business was later acquired by Hughes Aircraft and is today part of Raytheon). Denmark dropped out of the program, but the U.S. Navy joined in as the major partner.
250 m moving – 500 m stationary. Sights. pop up M16 type iron sights. The FGR-17 Viper was an American one-man disposable shoulder-fired antitank rocket, which was slated in the 1980s to be the replacement for the M72 LAW, but was canceled shortly after production began because of cost overruns and concerns about safety and capability.
Annual revenue for General Dynamics was $42.3 billion, up 7.3% compared to 2022. General Dynamics' Combat Systems unit, which makes tanks, posted a 14.8% rise in revenue from a year earlier.
General Dynamics employs around 1,100 UAW members at plants located in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. If these workers eventually go on strike, they will join the approximately 4,400 Mack ...
Lenticular Reentry Vehicle. The Lenticular Reentry Vehicle ( LRV ), according to a November 2000 Popular Mechanics cover story, [1] was an experimental nuclear warhead delivery system under development during the Cold War by defense contractor North American Aviation, managed out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Atlas rocket launching Friendship 7, the first U.S. crewed orbital space flight. Atlas-Centaur with Pioneer 10 on launch pad. Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee ...