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Poland Is Buying an Insane Number of Tanks from South Korea (nationalinterest.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Overall, the deal involves as many as 180 tanks

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

180 tanks in a week? No way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

It's only the first lot. They ordered 1000 of them two years ago.