Altair
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One thing I'm always curious about in Canada is a lack of a independant domestic arms industry.
All the heavy equipment canada uses, other than the LAV3 i think, not sure,and naval vessels,again, not certain, has to be ordered from another country. Which is puzzling to me for two reasons.
first being things like helicopters, and aircraft in general, canada can if it wanted, develope ourselves. We have companies like bell, bombardier, ect, which I'm sure could meet the demands of the canadian forces.
secondly, countries with economies similiar or smaller than Canada's are at it. Russia for example is similiar in terms of GDP to Canada, and they are and have been creating military hardware that is widely exported since stalin. Sweden, which is much smaller than canada in economic terms, has been as well, at least when it comes to aircraft, with planes like the jas 39 gripen.
just curious as to why this is.
All the heavy equipment canada uses, other than the LAV3 i think, not sure,and naval vessels,again, not certain, has to be ordered from another country. Which is puzzling to me for two reasons.
first being things like helicopters, and aircraft in general, canada can if it wanted, develope ourselves. We have companies like bell, bombardier, ect, which I'm sure could meet the demands of the canadian forces.
secondly, countries with economies similiar or smaller than Canada's are at it. Russia for example is similiar in terms of GDP to Canada, and they are and have been creating military hardware that is widely exported since stalin. Sweden, which is much smaller than canada in economic terms, has been as well, at least when it comes to aircraft, with planes like the jas 39 gripen.
just curious as to why this is.