Exhibit 24.1

GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION	POWER OF
IRS No. 13-1673581	ATTORNEY
	Filings with SEC

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each of the undersigned directors of GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, hereby constitutes and appoints each of NICHOLAS D. CHABRAJA, MICHAEL J. MANCUSO and DAVID A. SAVNER as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of General Dynamics Corporation (Registration No. 333-104293) (including, without limitation, any post-effective amendments thereto), and any registration statement relating thereto that is to be effective under Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the registration of certain debt securities of General Dynamics Corporation pursuant to Rule 415 under such Securities Act, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary as fully as to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands this 6^th day of August, 2003.

/S/    WILLIAM P. FRICKS

William P. Fricks

/S/    JAY L. JOHNSON

Jay L. Johnson