My question is “how many different tanks do we need”? Shouldn’t the EU have just one, or possibly two MBTs? Why duplicate all the efforts and maintain different setups?
The US has one MBT.
The US is one country. I guess Italy would rather pump that money into their own industry. Just like most other members.
That’s my point. We should work as one entity, not necessarily one country, but at least stop wasting resources with everyone doing their own thing. We have SEVENTEEN different types of tanks in Europe.
When it comes to these things we should think of ourselves as EU first, country second, or we won’t make it in the might-makes-right future that the US is trying to shape.
The US is one country with a single military doctrine.
Europe is multiple countries who provide a military doctrine that best suits them.
I agree that any future conflict will be pretty much WWII
