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. This wasn’t ideal, as the plant was supposed to be churning out urgently needed artillery shells for Ukraine. The robots, giant metal arms with clamps for hands…
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“It’s an absolute disaster,” said one former official in an Army office supervising the project. “The Army should’ve gone after recovering money from General Dynamics,” added the official.
That’s not how that works. You invest half a billion dollars into technology that isn’t working as advertised…you can’t expect the company to just “give you your money back”. They spent it on all that faulty equipment. Asking them for a refund, when they are clearly not in a position to make money, could very well bankrupt them.
And then what? All you’ve accomplished is to spend all that money just to remove one of your own suppliers from your supply chain.
