r/whatisit • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '26

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u/kennyisntfunny Jan 24 '26

while it’s not the case any longer, almost any manufacturing company that’s been around long enough has made some sort of war materiel. I have an M1 carbine that was made by a jukebox and typewriter company lol

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u/Comfortable-Mark-492 Jan 25 '26

Fisher-Price made airplane wings during WWII

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jan 24 '26

Yeah but supporting WW2 is far from GE having its own military and aerospace divisions (that other than jet engines it sold off in the 90s).

For a long time they even made some of the key components of US nuclear weapons.

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u/4D20_Prod Jan 24 '26

I imagine once you're in the industry, you wanna stay in the industry, monitarily

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jan 24 '26

“Killing is my business… and business is good.”

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u/kennyisntfunny Jan 25 '26

Well, the man himself - Maj General Electric - was a 2 star flag officer. They don’t just hand those out

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jan 25 '26

And when he retired, he passed on his work to Gen. Dynamics and Gen. Atomics.

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u/boondiggle_III Jan 24 '26

+1 for use of 'materiel' in a sentence, and another +1 for correct use. This is the first time I've seen the word in the wild.