Tanks. Speaking of verdammt pet peeves!

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> >US

In addition to the ex-WP countries Rob lists below, the DDR also built
tanks.

> >PRC

We don't build complete tanks any more. Most of the Strv 122s (Leopard 2S, "S"
for "Sweden") were assembled here, and most of the parts were built
here, and their add-on protection and parts of their electronics and
other
gadgets are also Swedish-designed and -built, but the basic design is of

course German. If you count Egypt as "tank-building", then we belong on
that list too :-)

> >The Argentinians build a tank, but it's really not an MBT

If you count the Korean light tanks, then the Argentinian TAMSE certainly
counts as a tank as well.

> India does indeed build tanks -Vijayantas (Vickers MBT) in the past,

Pakistan's "Khalid" (not to be confused with the Jordanian ex-UK tanks
of
the same name) seems to work better than the Indian "Arjun" - not that
that says very much.

> Brazil can make their own Osorio tanks;

...though unfortunately Empresa recently went under (mainly due to the
flood-wave of cheap ex-USSR equipment at the end of the Cold War
swamping
their would-be market).

> Poland, former Czechoslovakia and former Yugoslavia build ex-Soviet

Yugoslavia have also modified the basic ex-Sov types a fair bit.

Later,