comment: >
  
  Clearly some major shit is about to go down this decade, any nation not kicking their defense production industry into high gear right now are fools.
  Better to be prepared and wrong than underprepared and wrong.
context: "Norway will order 54 new German-made Leopard 2 tanks for its army from the Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Group, and will get an option to buy a further 18 tanks at a later time, the government said on Friday.
  "We ensure that we have the same tanks as our Nordic neighbours and many key NATO allies," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a news conference.
  "This further strengthens our relationship with Germany," he added." >
  
  What the article (and the PM) fails to mention is that Norway also already operates Leopard 2.
  They are just buying newer Leopard 2A7+s to replace their aging Leopard2A4NOs. >
  
  The distinction was helpful, otherwise I would have assumed Navy tanks (/s) >
  
  Also known as water tanks >
  
  This is why letting countries send their old tanks to ukraine is a no brainer for germany. Every tank that goes is just another order that comes in for german manufacturing and german jobs for a new leopard 2.