[Hardastarboard]

Can any of you really smart FReepers tell a guy why a country with less than 10 million people needs to spend big bucks on submarines? That’s like New York City buying a submarine.

[Venturer]

I myself was wondering what great International requirement Swedn had that needed a submarine.

Their greatest problem is the Muslim one and that will be won by the Muslims inside their own country.

[Strategerist]

1) Fear of the Russians

2) Keeping a major Swedish employer in business

3) Hope of eventual export sales of the sub

[ari-freedom]

"Can any of you really smart FReepers tell a guy why a country with less than 10 million people needs to spend big bucks on submarines? That’s like New York City buying a submarine."

this map should make it a bit clearer

[Little Ray]

‘Cause they share a border with the Sov, er, “Russia” who has a history of violating their territorial waters?

[AppyPappy]

They plan to sell it.

[SJSAMPLE]

The Russians consistently violate Swedish waters with some impunity. They remain a potential threat to their nearest neighbors.

[Non-Sequitur]

Can any of you really smart FReepers tell a guy why a country with less than 10 million people needs to spend big bucks on submarines? That’s like New York City buying a submarine.

Because they live next to a country with 142 million people spending big bucks on submarines.

[behzinlea]

Can any of you really smart FReepers tell a guy why a country with less than 10 million people needs to spend big bucks on submarines?

Probably for the same reason our country flushed trillions down the toilet of Johnson's "Great Society" programs--because it could be done, not because it was wise.

[Walkingfeather]

The swedes have the quietest most stealthy sub in the world. It kicks our asses EVERY time they go head to head with us. We can not find it. Not a fluke, a huge jump in sub warfare.