Luke jones wrote:Bit strong with your words i think there. I really don't think calling France and Germany the 'Enemy' and 'foreign speaking muck' is acceptable really.
I do get the issue with difficulties with partnerships with those countries, but come on.
I trust 100%
that the mods know how the enemy can operate behind enemy lines.
Lord Jim wrote:However would the quantities required in total by all three nations justify such a project, we are looking at less than 400 Tanks and support vehicles in total here.
As I said earlier, the Polish need for 500-ish replacements from 2028 onwards seems to 'trump' those quantities
- of course with Ft. Trump there, they might be given the odd-hundreds of M-1s and would only need to pay for the modernisation (sorry, polonisation) work on them
- happened with Morocco (where's the threat?) and Greece, of late
- how many thousands of xtra M-1s have been ordered just to make sure that there is a 'hot' production line
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)