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Originally Posted by Arrissen
Well well, evil Nazi's huh? That's just great. Right when I thought I might have found us another source of AFV's to play with...Damn.
You know Brazil has 1.5 million Japanese and Argentina 3 million Germans.
Maybe they had their own covert nuclear arms race between radical ex-pats sending eachother suitcase nukes or something?! Cos I can't see the sun kissed and generally laid back people from either of these countries nuking anyone. Ever.
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Well I always found interesting that GDW overlooked such gems of Arms exporters such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, and Singapore to name a few that come to mind. Isreali arms got mention in the Middle East and some of the Europe due to the closeness of the area. I recall some of the equipment surfacing here and there, but they were largely ignored. Granted in many cases the South Americans arms would of been in many cases comparable to stuff Cat B units of the Soviets and National Guard/Reserve unit in the GDW version 1 timeline.
Yet, after the TDM the contested battle zones of Europe would be much like Balkan region and the Middle East around Isreal where any thing that was a Tank at one time no matter how long ago our inferior of the best that you have, is still used as Tank or Tank Destroyer. Same with outdated APC or inferior APC/IFV would be press into service.
Of course, in most cases after the TDM many of these countries would only export for limited time, before they like many other would keep what is being produce for local use. Maybe a decade or two once nations starting to rebuild enough where they may be looking into spending money on defense, I can see these locations becoming where to go.
Just some thoughts.