Well, Republic Aviation actually originally made the A-10 - Northrop just inherited everything during the consolidation era of the late 80s and 90s.

Okay, maybe that was too easy. Can you do a spacecraft that can land two people on the moon and get them back to orbit?

Grumman: Done.

Oshkosh definitely is like "We'll haul anything: Your missiles to the launcher, your tank to the front line, your garbage to the dump, your firefighting ass to the blaze, your concrete to the construction site, yo mama up and down, your broken down truck to the mechanic, your mail someday... and uh... no idea how that sports car got in the shot"

The LLV's have only lasted this long because they had to. Just one of those features of not having a functional legislative branch for 50 years. There is a 6 billion dollar contract for them to be supplied with a new kind of vehicle, NGDVs, but the company behind them seems to be plagued by repeated delays and who knows if they will ever actually deliver all the vehicles that were ordered.

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Grumman is weird here because the mail trucks were just a singular side project

Now do Yamaha!

I do! I know how it got there!!!

Just sayin’

The mail truck can be both those things, bombs need delivery.

Delivery is their forte. You need something to go somewhere, they have a vehicle for it

They were producing box trucks for private companies for decades.

They were built to last 24 years (later extended to 30 years) that is about how long the mail jeeps from the 50's lasted before being replaced with the LLV. As to why they have been delayed in replacements... seems oshkosh underestimate how long it'll take to create a whole brand new production line from them and was ill prepared and the government too far invested to seek a new bidder.

The GE Profile All-in-One Washer/Dryer is objectively the worst home appliance I've ever use / owned.

It is absolutely not fit for a family with pets or more than 3 household members. It requires much more maintenance than both of our old machines put together. We've had to buy specialty tools & a mini-shop vac to keep it cleaned out & parts of it you still cannot reach without disassembly (which the owner can't do with out voiding the warranty). We've had 6 repair visits in less than two years, and the drying sensor has now failed twice. They are refunding our purchase entirely. If we hadn't purchased the extended warranty we'd be screwed and out $2500.

If you are considering one of these, stay away.

They just recently purchased a company that builds the ramps that you get onto airplanes with as well.

Come for the jokes, stay for the unprompted washing machine reviews.

It's less a review and more of a warning.

What the fuck, the 300€ chinese off-brand no-name washing machine I bought has been doing its thing for three years and counting now (with the occasional ripped t-shirt or disappeared sock). The only maintenance I have ever done is clean the "filter" (just a small hole somewhere where stuff accumulates) and throw in some machine cleaner it starts smelling. Fair, it does not dry and therefore is mostly an empty box with some pipes and an electric motor, but as someone else said, "electricity costs money, the sun is free".