>>27687699Bah, we're New Zealand. We have the steel, we have the trace elements, we have the engineers, we have potential workers, all we don't have is the factories, machines, or experience.
Maybe if someone set our military spending to 3% GDP and locked it there, we'd have the money to invest in growing our own arms industry.
But that's really the key problem of our military
1: It doesn't know what it's doing
2: It doesn't have enough money to do what it eventually decides to do.