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Make America, wait, what again? US Army may need foreign weapons to keep up

FrankAlphaXII

When I was in the Army still one of my two rifles was made by FNH, which is a Belgian company.

Same company that makes the M249 and M240 light machine guns that every branch uses as a matter of fact. The Army's recently selected the H&K G28 for the Compact Semiautomatic Sniper System, Delta and DEVGRU use the MP5 and MP7 for CQB. The Army's new pistol is made by Sig Sauer, and the one its replacing is made by Beretta. German and Italian respectively.

And its not just small arms either, they've used Bofors cannons in the Navy and Air Force for a very long time, and those are Swedish. Sweden isn't even a NATO country. The Marine Corps camo pattern is based on the Canadian CADPAT, which itself is based on the Rhodesian and later Zimbabwean standard pattern, and the Army's hand to hand combat methodology is Brazilian.

Its not that far out to buy from International vendors to a point, we don't usually buy vehicles foreign anymore (even though the US Navy was exceptionally good at taking Foreign Prizes and integrating them with the fleet in the 18th and 19th centuries) though there are exceptions like the English Electric/Martin B-57 Canberra, the C-23 Sherpa which is British, and the Pilatus PC-12. We also don't usually buy much in the commo or cryptographic arenas from foreign vendors either since we backdoor everything and assume everyone else is too which is a reasonable assumption.

So really, what's the point you're trying to make? And picking the M93 (its not an XM93, and hasn't been since the 80's) as an illustrative example is an odd choice because of how niche it is and how rarely it gets used.

Either way, If you think one or two terms of a President is going to change anything like that, you have a lot to learn about the way Acquisitions routinely doesn't work.

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