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January 16th, 2007   Post 1
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Why is Turkey using so much American Equipment? Is Turkey transforming in to a Little America like Israel?
 
January 16th, 2007   Post 2
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Turkey is an ally of US so it is normal for US to sell equipment to Turkey...
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January 17th, 2007   Post 3
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Turkey bought the K-9 SPH from South Korea.
Korean hardware :P
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January 17th, 2007   Post 4
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Originally Posted by EagleHammer
Why is Turkey using so much American Equipment? Is Turkey transforming in to a Little America like Israel?
Lots of countries use US weapons and equipment. Not just Israel [and Turkey]
 
January 17th, 2007   Post 5
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^^^ a lot of countries use it. in fact, we ended up invading a certain country (Iraq) that had tons of US weapons in it's arsenal
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January 17th, 2007   Post 6
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The history books on my shelf tell me American equipment save your European arses in WWII. Can't blame others for wanting the same thing can we?
 
January 17th, 2007   Post 7
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Some already calls 'Turkey Junior US'...
 
January 17th, 2007   Post 8
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The history books on my shelf tell me American equipment save your European arses in WWII. Can't blame others for wanting the same thing can we?

Sorry, but Im Swedish we didn't participate in WW2, and in fact US didn't deliver alot of equipment Sweden had order beacuse they tought they needed it themself.
 
January 17th, 2007   Post 9
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Because developping weapons require great resources and most countries don't have ebough resources to develop themself.
And now after cold war,military industry is no more profitable.
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January 18th, 2007   Post 10
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EagleHammer
Sorry, but Im Swedish we didn't participate in WW2, and in fact US didn't deliver alot of equipment Sweden had order beacuse they tought they needed it themself.
Yes you are right.......... and a victorious, successful, Hitler and Third Reicht would never have had any any any interest in Sweden. His ambitions included controling or allying every single European country except Sweden.

Last edited by Padre; January 18th, 2007 at 08:38.
 



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