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General Dynamics To Produce Army Machine Guns

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Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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General Dynamics' [GD] Armament and Technical Products unit yesterday announced a four-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with initial delivery orders valued at about $100 million for M2 flex machine guns. The initial production deliveries under the Army TACOM-Rock Island, Ill., issued-contract are scheduled to be completed by April 2012. Dean Gagnon, General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products gun systems senior program manager, said: "The M2 flex is a belt-fed, recoil-operated, air-cooled, crew-served weapon capable of right- or left-hand feed.…

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