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qazplm135

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2. if they really needed tanks in the future

Reply to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2020, 03:39 PM

Sep 2020

it would probably be a lot cheaper to just order and buy whatever main battle tank we are selling at that point, than to modernize, build, and maintain their own tanks.

The problem though might be the lack of trained crews.

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