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Your tax dollars at work . . Thailand seeking U.S. tanks for $127 million (fwd) -Reply
Subject:Your tax dollars at work . . Thailand seeking U.S. tanks for $127 million (fwd) -Reply From:"Mark D. Walker" <MWALKER -at- CONNECT4 -dot- SLC -dot- UNISYSGSG -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 14 Sep 1994 06:49:59 -0700
> Subject: Thailand seeking U.S. tanks for $127 million
> Copyright: 1994 by Reuters, R
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 14:20:21 PDT
> WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Thailand has asked to buy 180 U.S.
> M-60A3 tanks and associated military equipment for $127 million,
> the Pentagon said Monday.
> Congress is expected to approve the proposed sale, which would
> include heat-seeking sights for the tanks, 6,000 rounds of
> 105mm ammunition, M-240 machine guns and night vision goggles.
> The tanks would come from U.S. Army stocks, the Defense Department
> said.
> The sale would help the Southeast Asian nation upgrade its military
> armor, which currently includes 53 M-60A1 and 75 M-48A5 tanks from
> the United States.
What has that to do with tax dollars at work? The old M60A3 tanks
have been replaced in the U.S. Army by the M1 Abrams, and if not
sold, will be scrapped. Thailand, a friendly nation located
dangerously close to some communist countries, wants to buy the tanks
to replace its even older M60A1 and M48 tanks, which are of early
'60s and Korean War vintage, respectively. What's the problem?
