Could Britain get the CV 90120?

BAE Hagglunds, a Swedish division. Operates in Sweden, under Sweden, it kinda does its own things, so It’s barely able to be called BAE.

The entirety of the CV 90 family was created a long 3 years before the merge of Alvis, then later Vickers, and eventually BAE Land systems.

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No, it’s not British.

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because a lot of the vehicles Britain used are either going to be dead-on-arrival or not unique enough

His argument is the exact opposite! He’s saying the CVs are Swedish because they’re built by a Swedish subsidary, in Sweden, For Sweden.

The Ajax is built by a UK subsidary, in the UK, for the UK

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Poland had CV90120T on trials. Could be added to UK.

I’ll add that BAE Hugglands regularly refuses stuff like local production etc in bids made by BAE, unless BAE starts pulling teeth etc. BAE Hugglands is pretty much operates as its own thing.

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No, Ajax is built by an American subsidiary, not British.
It’s built by General Dynamics in Britain.

BAE is 40% owned by sweden brother

And it was driven by swedish crew not polish

Yup

Poland has nothing to do with Britain whatsoever?

When I made this poll I was trying to resolve the arguments

🤣 no

Did you mean BAE Hägglunds?

It’s specifically built by General Dynamics UK. The whole subsidary thing means it’s under a different company which in this case makes it a British subsidary of a US company. Hence why it’s literally called General Dynamics UK

General Dynamics UK is owned by General Dynamics. It’s the same company just different for tax purposes.
Same thing is done for BAE.
There is no difference, both do their methods exclusively for tax purposes.

There’s a bit more to it than just taxes, it’s also to some extent political benefit. General Dynamics UK encompasses quite a few originally UK companies though and as such while it is indeed owned by General Dynamics it is still a UK subsidary and as such is run as it’s own company. Just that General Dynamics gets to boot the brass if they aren’t happy with the profits.

The point still stands that it’s a UK subsidary of an American company. Just like BAE Hägglunds is a Swedish subsidary of BAE Systems

They could get an Abrams too. They trialed that.