Re: [VV] Vectorverse -- Ok so far?

 
In a message dated 2/2/05 9:38:38 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
johnmatkinson@gmail.com writes:

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There are less than a dozen nations that design  their own tanks.

There are perhaps a dozen more nations that build  tanks under liscence.

Yet almost every nation on the planet with  significant land area
except Canada owns tanks.

John
--  

First time I read that I missed (at 0435 hours) 'significant' and 
thought 
"Ireland was the 'first' nation to remove cavalry then tanks from their 
armed 
forces."
 
Of course the above comment from John assumes that for	economic,
political, 
religious, etc., reasons a nation doesn't choose to do	something
different 
then currently felt to be 'rational.'  PRC for instance  (Flawed example
but I 
am not yet fully awake) chooses to buy/steal technology  and build their
own 
nuclear subs.  India built domestically designed  jets/tanks despite the

availability of better models on the market.  One of  the ex-WP nations
built a 
trainer which it now exports despite the fact the  market is flooded
with trainers 
and trainer capable aircraft.
 
Gracias,

Glenn  "warbeads"