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Re: The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?

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post #191

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Finland also just recently signed a deal for 64 F35s after several years of research and comparing alternatives. I'm fairly confident that if there was some significant problem, they would have picked something else.

No offense but there's a huge difference between tiny Finland and pretty small Alaska and the giant Canadian North. Finland has a large border shared with Russia but it's nothing compared to the massive mostly undefended coastline along the arctic ocean that Canada shares with Russia. An absolutely potentially huge operating theatre.

Except for the minor detail that Finland shares a land border.

Re: The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?

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post #243

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The legality isn't the issue, it's the expected unlawful proliferation of these systems from this conflict that will happen.

> expected By whom? > proliferation Unlike firearms, the critical and expensive part of these weapons is the round, not the launcher. And they're being used up at a huge rate. What exactly is the worry scenario, that after the war is over the Ukranian state, newly forged in adversity, will immediately lose operational control over its units which will then decide they aren't imminently going to need these weapons for…

The gear is lying scattered on the ground everywhere. Total chaos - that's war. These weapons will be spirited away and sold to nefarious actors. Airlines, world leaders etc.
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