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General Dynamics Land Systems
IndustryDefense
PredecessorForce Protection Inc Edit this on Wikidata
FoundedMarch 7, 1982
HeadquartersSterling Heights, Michigan,
US
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsDefense
ParentGeneral Dynamics
Websitewww.gdls.com

General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) is a manufacturer of military vehicles such as tanks and lighter armored fighting vehicles.

History

In February 1982 Chrysler announced the sale of Chrysler Defense, its profitable defense subsidiary, to General Dynamics for US$348.5 million. The sale was completed in March 1982 for the revised figure of US$336.1 million.[1] Renamed General Dynamics Land Systems,[2] General Dynamics, accustomed to being paying its factory workers lower wages than Chrysler Defense, balked at the union's proposed wage increases.[3] the division operates the Lima Army Tank Plant and General Dynamics Anniston Operations in Anniston, Alabama, along with smaller operations in Tallahassee, Florida, and Scranton, Pennsylvania. Headquarters are located in Sterling Heights, Michigan. As of 2016, General Dynamics Land Systems employed 6,800 people.[4]

General Dynamics Land Systems Canada

In 2003 it acquired Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug GmbH (SSF), the land defense vehicles unit of Steyr-Daimler-Puch, and General Dynamics Land Systems – Canada (GDLS-C), a subsidiary of General Dynamics based in London, Ontario, purchased General Motors Diesel's GM Defense unit from General Motors. It supplies such armored vehicles as the LAV-25, the Stryker, and other models based on these chassis. The London operation is located at GM Diesel's old plant on Oxford Street East.[5] SSF merged into the General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) unit.

After the division secured a fourteen-year, $15-billion deal to supply light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia,[6] Unifor representatives expressed concern that the London plant would suffer financially due to negative publicity surrounding the deal and that union members employed at the plant would lose their jobs.[6] Both Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe and New Democrat Thomas Mulcair challenged Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the secrecy surrounding military sales to Saudi Arabia,[6] while David Perry, senior analyst with the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, argued that secrecy in trade details is part of a pragmatic foreign trade policy necessary for a domestic industry in a global market.[6]

Vehicles

References

  1. ^ "Chrysler Unit Sold". The New York Times. 17 March 1982. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  2. ^ "GD Completes Purchase of Chrysler Tank Division". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. AP. 17 March 1982. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  3. ^ Barron, James (29 September 1985). "Army Will Get Tanks Despite Strike, Builder Says". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  4. ^ New Products, New Customers - Macomb County
  5. ^ "Factories redeveloped by shipping firms HCL Logistics and Drexel Industries".
  6. ^ a b c d De Bono, Norman (30 September 2015). "Union asks NDP to keep Saudi armoured vehicles deal 'under wraps', fearing 'significant' job losses". Postmedia Network. Retrieved 30 September 2015.


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