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

By Jesse Coburn · ProPublica · August 2026
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
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"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."

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