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Poland Is Buying an Insane Number of Tanks from South Korea (nationalinterest.org)
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[–] pastasallad@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Overall, the deal involves as many as 180 tanks

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Any hot war is going to expend that in weeks or less. Laudable perhaps to describe war as insane - but not exactly realistic.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

NATO military doctrine doesn't require as many tanks has the Soviet doctrine, which Russia is still using, does.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, what - do you think this is just mismanagement of funds? Possibly to meet the minimum defense spending, I suppose. It could be.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well it's the military, so mismanagement of funds is a given. But that's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying that this number was probably aligned with the rest of NATO already, and that NATO doesn't expect to lose 180 tanks by driving them single-file on a highway.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's 180 in that first batch. Contract apparently is for 1,000. With a joint effort of production, so the last batch will be fully assembled in Poland.

[–] juan@lemmings.world 7 points 1 week ago

180 tanks in a week? No way.