08/12/2026
General Dynamics received a no bid contract of $530M from the Pentagon and opened a state-of-the-artillery factory near Dallas to make shells for the Ukraine war. Robots regularly caught fire, conveyors broke, autonomous carts got lost, and there was a dumpster fire. It never made a single shell before it was mothballed.
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
