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by nobody314159265 5323 days ago
Ditto for South Africa. There is (or was) an awful lot of home grown military and mining technology from the days of apartheid and sanctions when everything had to be invented locally.

Ironically a lot of the Isreali inventiveness was from the days when they didn't get automatic US military support. If you want to crush a country's R&D drive, simply give them shiny military toys for free.