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12 August 2026

Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

Alex Bandoni and Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: Corbis, AFP and Weegee (Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images. A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former workers there.

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