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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Not sure how that would chip away at 2% quick unless we buy them all overseas and in a short amount of time. And once that purchase is done, we'll be back down to lower levels. This is indeed why a government might choose to build at home and pay more. The higher domestic purchase price moves us closer to 2% while keeping the spending at home.
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Sub steel would certainly be a large learning curve to perfect and no doubt expensive. If We were to build in Canada it would have to be conventional Boats despite the obvious need for Nukes.
It would not surprise me that in the future Canada gets pressured into reconstituting the 4th CMBG in Latvia. Its not where you think modern warfare is going but we may have to include a Drone battalion and leave tube artillery back in Canada. Time will tell.