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The sale was completed in March 1982 for the revised figure of US$336.1 million and renamed General Dynamics Land Systems. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Under this newly formed division, General Dynamics would take over production of the M60 and M1 tanks for the United States Army.
Force Protection Europe. Website. www.gdls.com. Force Protection, Inc. was a manufacturer of ballistic- and blast-protected vehicles from the United States which have been used in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and other hot spots around the world. The company was acquired by General Dynamics in 2011.
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]
RCA radio controlled car. Dayton, Ohio 1921. In 1904, Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo was developing a radio-based control system he named Telekino.He chose to conduct an initial test in the form of a three-wheeled land vehicle (), which had an effective range of 20 to 30 meters, the first known example of an unmanned ground vehicle.
In 1997 he was appointed a Chief Executive Officer of General Dynamics, a position which he held for twelve years, stepping down from his office on June 30, 2009. This makes Nicholas Chabraja the longest-serving Chief Executive Officer of the top five defense contractors, the others being Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Raytheon.
1 × 7.62 mm (.308 in) M240B machine gun. Engine. diesel. Suspension. Hydropneumatic. The General Dynamics Griffin is a series of armored fighting vehicles under development by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) for the United States Army. [4] The Griffin is a derivative of ASCOD family of AFVs, which was also designed by GDLS.
General Dynamics European Land Systems was founded in 2003 General Dynamics Corporation acquired the land defence vehicles unit of Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug GmbH [ de ] in October 2003, and incorporated it to GDELS.
In August 2014 General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) and BAE Systems Land and Armaments were awarded $7.9 million each to develop technologies from the Ground Combat Vehicle program for the Future Fighting Vehicle. In May 2015, General Dynamics and BAE were awarded a further $28 million.