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The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco

The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells. www.propublica.org/article/army... ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxp

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The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco

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The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells. www.propublica.org/article/army... ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxp