Turkey is threatening to throw the German Leopard tank out of its 7ドル billion contest for a new main battle tank. The Turks are concerned that buying German equipment will simply buy problems in the future as the German Green Party tries every year to block any sale of military equipment (or spare parts for it) to Turkey. (The Greens, and other German leftists, oppose the Turkish use of military force against the Kurds.)--Stephen V Cole
The US Army spent 50ドル.7 million buying 6,700 trailers, but the GAO reports that the Army will now have to spend another 4ドル.3 million modifying the trucks that will tow it to match the trailer hitches.--Stephen V Cole