While watching the training run on news tonight I wondered about the point of it all.
So lets say a 'hostile' sub did show up in NZ waters from one of the following countries, just which ones could we bomb their sub without getting bushwacked afterwards???
Especially if you factor in other countries treaties and alliances etc...
Have deleted obvious permanent friendly nations from the list. Feel free to sidetrack rants about skyhawks etc... ;p
Algeria [1]
Argentina
Bangladesh on order
Brazil [2]
Chile [3]
Colombia [4]
Ecuador [5]
Egypt [6]
France
Germany (list)
Greece
India (list)
Indonesia
Iran
Italy (list)
Israel
Japan
Malaysia
Netherlands (list) [7]
North Korea
Norway
Pakistan
Peoples Republic of China
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Peru [8]
Poland
Portugal (list) [9]
Russia (list) (some ex-Soviet Union)
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain (list) [10]
Sweden (list)
Turkey (list)
Venezuela [11]
Vietnam
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