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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by Hamuko on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:15PM (#39631526)
Sweden has a pretty solid defense industry. Gripens and NLAWs for example are Swedish production.
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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by FirmwareBurner on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:22PM (#39631631)
Correction: NLAWs are only Swedish designed(SAAB defense) but are production of Thales(a French company) manufactured in Belfast, Northern Ireland(UK), using warheads made by a subsidiary of SAAB in Switzerland.

Yes, I'm fun at parties.

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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by red-iron-pine on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:38PM (#39634868)
The UK was heavily involved in the NLAW development too, IIRC. Not just made in NI but the UK provided a lot of the initial funding along with SAAB.

and boy howdy do those NLAWs work.

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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by FirmwareBurner on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:18AM (#39640022)
>and boy howdy do those NLAWs work.

I know. I'm always in pain when my NLAWS come to visit.

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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by fennecbutt on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:50PM (#39633057)
He he, my response to the sorts of people that use the "I bet you're fun at parties" jibe is usually "we go to different parties".
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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by nextos on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:21PM (#39631620)
Indeed, for a small country in terms of population, they have a really impressive defense industry.

Also a very interesting distributed defense doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas_90

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