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11011 Sunset Hills Road Reston VA 20190

Aaron Rappaport (312) 236-6300 222 N. LaSalle St. Suite 2000 Chicago IL 60601 Maurice M. Lefkort 212-728-8000 Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York NY 10019 0001086477 N Longview Asset Management, LLC OO N DE 24388917 24388917 24388917 N 9.0 IA The Reporting Person (as defined below) listed on the cover page to this Schedule 13D amendment hereby makes the following Statement pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act") and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. This Statement is an amendment of the original Schedule 13D filed on January 2, 1970 (the "Original Schedule 13D"), as amended by: Amendment No. 1, filed January 26, 1970; Amendment No. 2, filed February 13, 1970; Amendment No. 3, filed March 2, 1970; Amendment No. 4, filed April 20, 1970; Amendment No. 5, filed January 12, 1971; Amendment No. 6, filed September 25, 1974; Amendment No. 7, filed January 20, 1975; Amendment No. 8, filed May 19, 1975; Amendment No. 9, filed October 22, 1975; Amendment No. 10, filed November 20, 1975; Amendment No. 11, filed January 16, 1976; Amendment No. 12, filed June 2, 1976; Amendment No. 13, filed November 4, 1976; Amendment No. 14, filed January 14, 1977; Amendment No. 15, filed May 11, 1977; Amendment No. 16, filed September 21, 1979; Amendment No. 17, filed June 16, 1980; Amendment No. 18, filed June 15, 1981; Amendment No. 19, filed March 7, 1984; Amendment No. 20, filed December 10, 1986; Amendment No. 21, filed June 11, 1987; Amendment No. 22, filed August 26, 1992; Amendment No. 23, filed July 2, 1999; Amendment No. 24, filed November 9, 2001; Amendment No. 25, filed July 16, 2003; Amendment No. 26, filed October 17, 2014; Amendment No. 27, filed July 26, 2017; Amendment No. 28, filed October 2, 2023; Amendment No. 29, filed April 10, 2024; and Amendment No. 30, filed August 28, 2026 (the Original Schedule 13D as amended by Amendment Nos. 1 through 30 is referred to herein as the "Schedule 13D"). Common Stock GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION 11011 Sunset Hills Road Reston VA 20190 Items 5(a) and 5(b) are hereby amended to read as follows: (a) - (b) By virtue of its management of Longview Client accounts, Longview beneficially owns 24,388,917 shares of Common Stock, as of October 1, 2026, representing approximately 9.0% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, calculated in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, based on 270,557,195 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding as of July 5, 2026 as reported by the Issuer in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended July 5, 2026 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 29, 2026. Information with respect to all transactions in the securities which were effected in the past sixty days or since the most recent filing on Schedule 13D, whichever is less, by the Reporting Person is set forth on Exhibit A to this Schedule 13D. Longview Asset Management, LLC /s/ Angie Newhouse 10/06/2026