Can someone tell me why we make our M1A battle tank in Egypt instead of USA? and our LAV’s Bradleys and all in Canada?
Egypt built for their own use and sales.
Not for us.
They purchased a lot of US content (like the engine and transmission).
The program started in the Reagan administration.
Margret Thatcher’s Son was almost done in in the Libyan desert during the Paris to Dakar rally.
This was the rise of Al Queda, Reagan and Thatcher were not amused
Egypt doesn’t make our M1 tanks, they are license-built export models for Egypt’s own military. US M1s are built in the US.
The LAV-25 and the later Stryker are made in Canada because those designs won out over the US made competitors for the contracts. The design for both traces back to a **Swiss** armored personnel carrier; the basic design was never American and it was clearly better than the other things that were bid; the LAV-25 was originally bid by General Motors Defense.
Bradley was originally bid and made by United Defense but BAE bought them and they’re now part of BAE Systems Land & Armaments - BAE is British. However, the Bradley is currently made in York, Pennsylvania. Not Canada.