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by seldonnn 2563 days ago
There is very little product overlap so this is categorically false. UTC makes aircraft engines, commercial jet interiors, and avionics. Raytheon makes missiles, radars, and ISR equipment. Please explain how you make a missile in a a turbine engine factory.
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>Please explain how you make a missile in a turbine engine factory

It's pretty rare for a single office to create, from start to finish, an entire product, like an engine or missile. The assembly line is distributed in the first place, with separate offices attaching, refitting, and validating different pieces of the entire weapon system.

So I do not believe this comment comes from a place of knowledge on this subject. My comment also asserts that factories are not static, just because they produce something now doesn't mean that they can't be assigned something later.

Tomahawks? At least, a sizeable fraction of one.