{
  "id": 740165,
  "title": "Pentatgon funded a $533 million artillery plant that made nothing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/pentatgon-funded-a-533-million-artillery-plant-that-made-nothing",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T06:16:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/pentatgon-funded-a-533-million-artillery-plant-that-made-nothing/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "This article was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative newsroom. A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former workers there. This wasn’t ideal, as the plant was supposed […] The post…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}