Re: Danish TO & E
Wow, thanks for this thread, Palle. Denmark does indeed have an impressive and under-appreciated military.
Some of the information is irrelevant to the game itself, but I'm currently writing a story that includes several characters in the Danish military, so if you don't mind, I'd like to keep you on call.
Regarding old equipment still on the buy lists: I always thought that represented a nation's war stores-- stuff they've officially phased out, but still keep in storage in the event that something bad happens. Many nations keep equipment from the last decade or so in mothballs just in case it's ever needed*, those with lots of available space will keep them even longer, and uber-packrats like the Russians and Israelis probably still have leftovers from the Second World War.
The United States military didn't get rid of it's last M-1903 Springfields until the Cold War ended. Wouldn't surprise me if there was still a crate of them left and forgotten in some government building out on the barren prairies of North Dakota.
*or perhaps because such weaponry is still too dangerous to sell, too valuable to scrap and too old to use
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