In 1954, GD purchased Convair and reorganised Canadair as its Canadian subsidiary.

In May 1965, GD reorganized into 12 operating divisions based on product lines.

The two companies merged to form General Dynamics ( GD ) in 1952.

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics ( NYSE: GD ), has been awarded a contract for the production and delivery of 30mm M789 High Explosive Dual Purpose ( HEDP ) ammunition cartridges by the U. S. Army Contracting Command.

It was initially the electronics manufacturing facility for General Dynamics operations in Fort Worth ; when GD sold its aviation business to Lockheed Martin the latter was not interested in the facility which was then sold to Elbit.

Jet Aviation, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics ( NYSE: GD ), was founded in Switzerland in 1967 and is one of the leading business aviation services companies in the world.

In 1983 General Dynamics Convair Division ( GD / C ) was awarded a development contract for the AGM-129A.

At the time, officers of the General Duties ( GD ) Branch ( mainly pilots on a ground tour or who for medical reasons could no longer fly ) performed the duty of Squadron Intelligence Officer, or aircrew on ground tours in the Air Ministry Intelligence Department.

;: The Danish military bought the 240 GD (/ 24, / 28 and / 34 variants ) to supersede the M151A1, the Volkswagen 181 (" Jagdwagen ") and the Land Rover 88.

;: The Norwegian Army bought 240 GD to replace Volvo and Land Rover 4 × 4 vehicles in the mid-1980s, and 300 GD to use as ambulances.

A glow-discharge ( GD ) device serves as a versatile source, as it can simultaneously introduce and atomize the sample.

* Lots of GD material on display in Yeats exhibition including Ritual Notebooks.

GB ( sarin ) was discovered next in 1939, followed by GD ( soman ) in 1944 and finally the more obscure GF ( cyclosarin ) in 1949.

The G-series naming system was created by the United States when it uncovered the German activities, labeling tabun as GA ( German Agent A ), sarin as GB and soman as GD.

* Turkey – Published since June 2006 by GD Gazete Dergi.

Henry Crown became the company's largest shareholder, and merged his Material Service Corporation with GD in 1959.

GD subsequently reorganized into Eastern Group in New York and Western Group in San Diego, California, with the latter taking over all of the aerospace activities and dropping the Convair brand name from its aircraft in the process.

In order to bid on a naval version successfully, GD partnered with Grumman, who would build a customized version for aircraft carrier duties.

After four rounds of bids and changes, the GD / Grumman team finally won the contract over a Boeing submission.

With an unacceptable Navy version, estimates for 2, 400 F-111s, including exports, were sharply reduced, but GD still managed to make a $ 300-million profit on the project.

In 1972, GD bid on the USAF's Lightweight Fighter ( LWF ) project.

GD and Northrop were awarded prototype contracts.

GD, whose F-111 program was winding down, desperately needed a new aircraft contract.

F-16 orders eventually totaled more than 4, 000, making it the largest and most successful program for GD, and one of the most successful western military projects since World War II.

In 1985, GD also acquired Cessna.

Having divested itself of its aviation holdings, GD concentrated on land and sea products.

On August 19, 2008, GD agreed to pay $ 4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the US Government claiming a GD unit fraudulently billed the government for defectively manufactured parts used in US military aircraft and submarines.

The US alleged that from September 2001 to August 2003 GD defectively manufactured or failed to test parts used in US military aircraft, such as the C-141 Starlifter transport plane.

The GD unit involved, based in Glen Cove, New York, closed in 2004.

Soman, or GD ( systematic name: O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate ), is an extremely toxic chemical substance.

GD can be thickened for use as a chemical spray using an acryloid copolymer.

Soman was given the identifier GD post-war ( GC was already in medical use ) when the information relating to soman was recovered by the Soviet Union from its hiding place in a mine.

It replaced the long-running Paykan which was itself based on the Hillman Hunter, an ancestor ( in corporate ownership and model positioning terms ) of the 405, having been produced by the Rootes Group and Chrysler UK from 1963 until 1979-the year that Peugeot purchased Chrysler's European operations.

Mitsubishi purchased Chrysler's share of the joint venture in 1995.

Production was later taken over by Raytheon Corporation ( RAYCO ) when it purchased the defense production business of Texas Instruments.

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.

In 2003 they purchased the defense divisions of General Motors as well.

On December 15, 2010, M7 was purchased by the United States subsidiary of the Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems.

* 1996: Westinghouse purchased Infinity Broadcasting ; sells its defense electronics business.

In an effort to establish leadership in the defense electronics business, Raytheon purchased in quick succession Dallas-based E-Systems ( 1995 ), Chrysler Corporation's defense electronics and aircraft-modification businesses ( 1996 ) ( portions of these businesses were later sold to L-3 Communications ), and the defense unit of Texas Instruments – Defense Systems & Electronics Group ( 1997 ).

Also in 1997, Raytheon acquired the aerospace and defense business of Hughes Aircraft Company from Hughes Electronics Corporation — a subsidiary of General Motors, which included a number of product lines previously purchased by Hughes Electronics including the former General Dynamics missile business, the defense portion of Delco Electronics ( Delco Systems Operations ), and Magnavox Electronic Systems.

As evidence, Fishman submitted course materials he said that he purchased from Ellie Bolger, a fellow Scientologist, and Richard Ofshe, an expert witness for his defense.

Anspach based his defense on the grounds that the game itself existed in effectively the public domain before Parker purchased it, and therefore Parker's trademark claim on it should be nullified.

Health restoratives and items to improve gaming statistics such as strength and defense can be purchased with in-game money from a shop on the castle grounds.

A series of fourteen coastal defense guns, including four large Vickers 8-inch guns purchased during the Russo-Japanese War from the British, were secured in concrete bunkers and located around the island to guard the open water and the approaches into the lagoon.

During this development, Goodyear Aerospace was bought by the Loral aerospace company in 1986, and this defense division was in turn purchased by Lockheed Martin Aerospace in 1995.

In his defense, Belfort argued that he purchased an over the counter supplement which contained 4-Hydroxytestosterone.

* The third Belleisle was the lead ship of her class of ironclad battleship, originally built for the Ottoman Empire as Peiki Shereef, but purchased in 1876, used as a coast defense ship and expended as a target ship in 1903.

The defense portion of AMS could not be sold to a foreign-based company so CACI purchased the defense and intelligence practice for $ 415 million.

Disappointed in the paper ’ s weak defense of unregulated corporations, a new group of stalwart Republicans purchased the old Democratic Milwaukee News in 1880 and resurrected it as the Republican and News.

Military Times newspapers are the most purchased publications in AAFES shops and defense commissaries, beating such national bestsellers as People and Time.

Ferranti was eventually broken up and the majority of the defense subsidiaries were purchased by GEC.

* Argentina purchased 4 Roland shelter-mounted systems for static defense of fixed installations and one of these was deployed to defend Stanley airfield during the Falklands War with Britain in 1982.

Colt was the original producer of the M16 rifle, rights to which it purchased from designer ArmaLite, and today offers a complete “ Family of Weapons ” based around the derivative M4 Carbine, which includes a heavy barreled rifle ( HBAR ®), a carbine with sliding stock ( M4 & ACC-M ), a personal defense weapon with folding-collapsible buttstock ( SCW ), a piston carbine ( APC ), a Commando ® M4 with a 10. 5 in.