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To: longtermmemmory
why are we buy foreign weapons?

The ones we use will most likely be made here.

Anyhow, as an Ordnanceman in the Navy, I can inform you that foreign components are everywhere. British wing pylons, Italian wheels, French sonars. On and on. We build to export and every country that buys them wants a piece of the action. Ain't globalism grand!

20 posted on 02/17/2017 2:48:10 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Heck, the M1892 Krag was a Norwegian design, the M1903 Springfield was practically a license-built Mauser 98, and elements of the German FG42 were copied (for better or worse) into the M60 GPMG.


33 posted on 02/17/2017 7:13:01 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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