General Dynamics Corporation is an American industrial and technology company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and one of the largest defence contractors in the world. It was formed in 1952 when the submarine builder Electric Boat merged with the Canadian aircraft maker Canadair, and it later added the Convair aircraft business. It is best known for the M1 Abrams tank and the Stryker armoured vehicle, the F-111 and F-16 combat aircraft, and nuclear submarines of the Los Angeles, Virginia, Ohio and Columbia classes. Its marine group includes Electric Boat, Bath Iron Works and NASSCO, its combat systems group includes General Dynamics Land Systems, and its aerospace group makes Gulfstream business jets. In 2024 about 69 percent of its revenue came from the United States federal government.
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an American industrial and technology company based in Reston, Virginia
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an American industrial and technology company based in Reston, Virginia
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is a subsidiary of General Dynamics
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is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation
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Bath Iron Works has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics
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It is a division of General Dynamics.
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark (Wikipedia)
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Developed in the 1960s by General Dynamics
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It was purchased by General Dynamics in 1953
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is an American aircraft company and a subsidiary of General Dynamics
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developed by General Dynamics and produced by multiple companies
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a group of armoured fighting vehicles developed by General Dynamics UK for the British Army
General Dynamics F-16XL (Wikipedia)
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The General Dynamics F-16XL is a derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon
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