Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "Could this be the British Army's next truck?" video.

@user-lp7wo7og4x that's an argument for maintaining friendly relations and not self-isolating.
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@user-lp7wo7og4x we do have some manufacturing ability - just not in the latest military trucks - but it's at that time in history where each country cannot economically produce everything. It's only worth it if you're going to make kit for other countries too and Germany has made that huge and continuous investment for tanks and trucks and several other things and they've got other countries to buy them so there's a bigger market and spares etc. We keep blowing our wad of cash on custom projects like Ajax which only we want and there's no way to amortise the cost of all the failures that one needs to get over when developing anything. One should buy products that are under continuous refinement and will continue to be for many years.
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@thomaspearson5898 It was left to deteriorate a very long time ago. Now you're talking about starting afresh and given that budgets are limited is it really critical for us to make a truck - perhaps we'd rather use our money to invest in making aeroplane components or other higher value items instead?
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