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Outside of costs, an army / police using a foreign-develop proprietary operating system for their everyday internal need is insane.
by adev_ 8y ago
Outside of costs, an army / police using a foreign-develop proprietary operating system for their everyday internal need is insane.
- alexis_fr 8y agoI always wonder why foreign countries by the French Rafale. Same problem: What can we trust from a foreign entity?
- seszett 8y agoIt's a slightly different problem as those countries that buy the Rafale do so because they don't have (or aren't willing to develop) the means to build their own planes. So to them it's mostly a matter of choosing which foreign entity to trust and at which cost, between the US, Russia, China, France, and a handful of other states with lower performing but cheaper equipment.
- int_19h 8y agoThey can't, but they also can't afford to have a fighter that's significantly inferior to their adversaries. So they find the country that can offer what they need, which they can trust most (or don't trust least, depending on your perspective).
- johnchristopher 8y agoIt's not like every country has the capacities to produce fighter aircrafts on its own. Also, having intertwined economies is supposed to help maintain peace and foster prosperity.
- agumonkey 8y agodepends on how the intertwining is done, a lot of international instability is due to foreign companies taking a bit too much advantage of other places
- pjc50 8y agoI always wonder if the Mitterand / Thatcher / Exocet story is true: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/22/books.france https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/22/books.france
- saiya-jin 8y agoI don't think it was, she was playing Mitterand on emotions, which most french guys have way too many and are easily controlled by them (I see it every single effin' day around me in many ways). If she would go nuclear on Argentina due to that skirmish and few marines dying in regular acts of war (however sad it is, this is business-as-usual during war), she would have alienated UK to every single country in the world, destroying it on many levels. And also go down in history as one of the most horrible rulers in history of mankind. Not something any power-and-approval-hungry sociopath (sorry, 'leader of the nation') wants to leave behind.
- toyg 8y ago> emotions, which most french guys have way too many Gross generalization.
- pjc50 8y agoOh, the nuclear threat was in retrospect almost certainly a bluff, what I was more questioning was whether the conversation happened, and whether Mitterand did in fact hand over any kind of remote disarm codes for Exocet missiles.
- dmurray 8y ago> she would have alienated UK to every single country in the world, destroying it on many levels. That really isn't realistic. Some allies might have been unhappy with Thatcher for normalising the use of nuclear weapons, and might even have openly criticised the UK. But France, the US, the Commonwealth nations would not just desert an important ally: how would that benefit them? They would have retconned the story and we'd all believe now that Galtieri was the next Hitler and would have subjugated the whole hemisphere if not for Thatcher's brave initiative.
- atoav 8y agoArguably it is easier to check a few jets you buy once than software used by many thousand persons on different machines with differnt versions and monthly updates. I am pretty sure that especially in weapon systems it is quite common for customers to demand special changes, services and insight.
- vvillena 8y agoDassault already won the trust of half the world with the Mirage.