General Dynamics Corporation

The Hind Rajab Foundation, the International Federation for Human Rights and the European Legal Support Center filed a criminal complaint on 26 June 2026 against representatives of Nitro-Chem, the Polish state-owned company, for alleged involvement in international crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. Al-Haq records that three Palestinian human rights organisations - Al-Haq, Al Mezan and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - together with individual survivors of the genocide, are expected to file their own complaints and become parties to the proceedings, detailing the scale of the destruction in Gaza. The complaint rests on the Palestinian Youth Movement report, and cites a 2018 General Dynamics presentation describing Nitro-Chem as the qualified TNT source for US bomb programmes. Pure TNT was removed from EU and Polish export licensing in 2021.

Published 18 November 2025 and revised 19 June 2026 by the Palestinian Youth Movement with Shadow World Investigations and the Movement Research Unit. Records that MK-80 series and BLU-109 bombs were produced at the Garland Operations facility north of Dallas, which General Dynamics owned until REPKON USA acquired it in April 2025, and that Garland has long been and remains the sole US plant capable of producing MK-80 series bomb bodies. For the strike on Khan Younis refugee camp of 17 October 2023, which Airwars estimates killed between 15 and 40 civilians, the report reads the markings on recovered shrapnel - 'BOMB MK 84 MOD 4 2000 LBS / PART NO 30003-923AS105 / LOT NO GDG16 H 001' - and decodes them against the US Defense Department ammunition lot numbering standard: GD for General Dynamics, G for the Garland factory, 16 for the year and H for August. It also publishes a video still of an unexploded MK-84 in Gaza with markings indicating production by General Dynamics in January 2025. On TNT it records that GD-OTS told the Munitions Executive Summit in April 2018 that Nitro-Chem was its sole TNT supplier for MK-84 production, with 31,800,000 pounds designated for 40,000 MK-84 bombs over 2017 to 2019. It states that metal bodies for 155mm shells are produced at two US Army-owned plants operated by General Dynamics, at Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, with a load-assemble-pack line at Camden, Arkansas. The report is careful that the TNT origin of any individual bomb 'cannot be definitively confirmed without further investigation'.

Names the executive officers as of March 2026: Phebe N. Novakovic, chairman and chief executive officer, thirteen years in role; Kimberly A. Kuryea, senior vice president and chief financial officer; Jason W. Aiken, executive vice president, Combat Systems and Mission Systems, who moved from chief financial officer in June 2025; Mark L. Burns, executive vice president and president of Gulfstream Aerospace; Danny Deep, president. Records that shareholders raised 'human rights risk management and due diligence' in the company's 2025 engagement, that a fully independent Sustainability Committee oversees human rights, and that proposals for the 2027 annual meeting must reach the Corporate Secretary at Reston by 27 November 2026.

The State Department approved a $151.8 million sale to Israel of 12,000 BLU-110A/B general purpose 1,000-pound bomb bodies with engineering and logistics support, again under an emergency determination waiving congressional review. The prime contractor named is REPKON USA of Garland, Texas - the company that bought the Garland bomb plant from General Dynamics in April 2025. Establishes that bomb body supply to Israel continued through the change of ownership.

The company's own annual report. Revenue $52,550 million, up 10.1%; operating earnings $5,356 million. Aerospace, which is Gulfstream, contributed $13,110 million on 158 aircraft deliveries; Combat Systems $9,246 million; Marine Systems $16,723 million; Technologies $13,471 million. Total backlog $118 billion at 31 December 2025. In 2025, 68% of consolidated revenue came from the US government, of which foreign military sales of every kind were $1,015 million. The Combat Systems segment includes Ordnance and Tactical Systems, described as a provider of munitions, weapon systems, artillery and energetics across more than 25 locations in the United States and Canada, among them Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

General Dynamics is one of the 104 businesses screened. DBIO V identifies 1,115 European financial institutions with relationships to those businesses, USD 310 billion in loans and underwriting between January 2023 and August 2025, and USD 1,503 billion in shares and bonds held at 31 August 2025. Research by Profundo; foreword by Francesca Albanese. The BDS National Committee also lists General Dynamics among its non-Israeli institutional-pressure targets in the military and security category, which is a divestment and exclusion listing rather than a consumer boycott call.

Reports the publication of 'The Missing Ingredient: Polish TNT' and records that Nitro-Chem produced 90% of the TNT imported by the United States for the aerial bombs sent to Israel. Quotes the report: 'Based on information provided by the bomb's U.S. manufacturer, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, the Polish company Nitro-Chem, and U.S. government databases, we can conclude that there is a high probability that a significant proportion of [Mk 84s] that Israel dropped on the Gaza Strip since October 2023 are filled with Polish-made TNT.' Records that Nitro-Chem signed its largest deal in April 2025 to deliver 18,000 tonnes of TNT to Paramount Enterprises International, the intermediary that sells on to General Dynamics, for 2027 to 2029, and cites a Haaretz estimate that as many as two-thirds of the 50,000 bombs dropped on Gaza to the end of August 2024 were MK-84s.

The Commission concluded that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, finding that four of the five acts of genocide defined in the Genocide Convention were committed. The finding is confined to Gaza.

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems-Canada exhibited the M231/M232A1 Modular Artillery Charge System, propelling charges for 155mm artillery projectiles, at the CANSEC arms fair in Ottawa on 28 May 2025. Ottawa police arrested 13 people, including a medic and a photojournalist, among 75 to 100 demonstrators outside. Cites Project Ploughshares on a September 2024 contract under which a Canadian Crown corporation supplies M31A2 triple base propellant to the US Department of Defense for onward supply to Israel.

Proposal 4, the shareholder proposal requesting a report on a human rights impact assessment, was rejected: 11,639,352 shares for, 200,213,458 against, 2,168,013 abstaining, with 25,159,864 broker non-votes. The proposal drew about 5.4% of the shares voted on it. Signed by Gregory S. Gallopoulos as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary.

REPKON USA, the American subsidiary of the Turkish defence manufacturer REPKON, announced on 2 April 2025 that it had acquired the GD-OTS Garland Operations facility, a 38-acre manufacturing site north of Dallas producing metal parts for defence and aerospace applications. Bryan Van Brunt, president of REPKON USA, is quoted on retaining the site's personnel. This is the plant that produced MK-80 series and BLU-109 bomb bodies for General Dynamics. REPKON USA announced a change of name to Paligen Technologies in March 2026.

The Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York, holding 20 shares, asked the board to publish a report with the results of a human rights impact assessment covering products and services in conflict-affected areas. Their supporting statement records that 'GD also supplies artillery munitions and bombs to Israel, which have been reportedly used in attacks on Palestinian civilians in Gaza', and that although UN experts called in June 2024 on companies to end arms transfers to Israel even where approved by state export licensing, the company continues to sell. The board recommended a vote against, describing it as the third substantially identical proposal in four years, and pointing to its export control compliance, risk-based due diligence, board Sustainability Committee and Policy Statement on Human Rights.

The State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Israel of 35,529 MK 84 or BLU-117 general purpose bomb bodies and 4,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads, at an estimated $2.04 billion, with deliveries estimated to begin in 2026. The Secretary of State determined that an emergency existed, 'thereby waiving the Congressional review requirements under Section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act'. The notification states: 'The prime contractors will be General Dynamics, located in Garland, TX; Ellwood National Forge Company, located in Irvine, PA; and McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, located in McAlester, OK.' Text as published by GlobalSecurity.org, the DSCA original having moved.

Al Jazeera's verification agency Sanad concluded that US-made MK-84 bombs may have been used against the encampment of displaced families at al-Mawasi, from analysis of three craters left by bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes. The article identifies the munition type and does not name a manufacturer.

The board of Norges Bank decided on 5 September 2024 to exclude General Dynamics Corporation and Larsen & Toubro from the Government Pension Fund Global, on the Council on Ethics recommendation, for production of key components for nuclear weapons. The exclusion is not based on the company's supply to Israel. Trade press reported the divestment at roughly EUR 705 million. Note that the Norwegian Government has appointed a committee to review the fund's ethical framework, reporting by 15 October 2026, and that under temporary guidelines Norges Bank cannot decide on new exclusions but may revoke existing ones.

The American Friends Service Committee's corporate research project places General Dynamics on its BDS Divestment Shortlist, tagged Gaza Genocide and Weapons and Military Equipment. It records that the Israeli military uses BLU-113 and BLU-109 penetrator bombs and MK-82 and MK-84 general purpose bombs made by the company; that the company makes 20mm guns for F-15E aircraft, 25mm guns for F-15, F-16 and F-35 aircraft and 30mm gun pods; that the GD 883 V-12 diesel engine is transferred to Israel for the Merkava IV tank; that it previously made the chassis for 386 Namer armoured personnel carriers and signed a $310 million components contract in 2017; and that its Gulfstream subsidiary supplied the Israeli Air Force's G550 special electronic mission aircraft from 2005, the airframe also used for the Oron aircraft unveiled in 2021. Records that evidence of war crimes in the 2014 and 2021 assaults on Gaza was published by the Palestinian human rights organisations Al-Haq, Al Mezan and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, alongside Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Lists university divestment resolutions naming the company at Michigan-Dearborn (2005, 2006, 2010), UCLA (2014), Oglethorpe (2015) and Wisconsin-Madison (2017). Page valid as of 15 August 2024.

Documents the use of an MK-84 2,000-pound bomb in a strike on a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, in which around 100 people were killed. The account identifies the munition type; it does not attribute manufacture. Retained from the previous version of this profile.

The International Court of Justice found Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful and set out obligations on states in relation to trade and dealings arising from it. The legal framework on which procurement exclusions and export restrictions rest.

UN human rights experts named the arms manufacturers supplying Israel - 'including BAE Systems, Boeing, Caterpillar, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Oshkosh, Rheinmetall AG, Rolls-Royce Power Systems, RTX, and ThyssenKrupp' - and said they should end transfers 'even if they are executed under existing export licenses'. The experts said these companies 'risk being complicit in serious violations of international human rights and international humanitarian laws'. The statement also names investors urged to act, among them BlackRock, The Vanguard Group, State Street Corporation, Norges Bank Investment Management, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase.

On the General Dynamics earnings call of 25 October 2023, the TD Cowen analyst Cai von Rumohr asked where the company expected incremental demand. Jason Aiken, then executive vice-president of technologies and chief financial officer, replied: 'You know, the Israel situation obviously is a terrible one, frankly, and one that's just evolving as we speak. But I think if you look at the incremental demand potential coming out of that, the biggest one to highlight and that really sticks out is probably on the artillery side.' The article notes the remarks sit against the company's own statement on human rights and its endorsement of the UN Guiding Principles.

The Commission warned that the use of MK-84 bombs in highly populated areas 'would likely constitute a violation of the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks'. The finding concerns the munition rather than any manufacturer, and remains the clearest UN statement on the weapon General Dynamics built.