Precision manufacturing has been Germany’s thing for a while, but semiconductors is a completely different skill set.

Making a car and tank has way more in common than making a car and a CPU.

And you won't get electric tanks for many decades. Where else could you hawk ICE at a premium without environmental regulations?

	▲	alex43578 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You won’t get electric tanks for the same reason you won’t get electric planes: energy density and supply chains. An Abrams has a multi-fuel jet turbine that’ll take diesel, gas, and jet fuel; all of which are easy to transport and store in bulk, in any environment, compared to needing to generate and store the same quantity of energy. The closest tanks will come any time soon is a diesel-electric hybrid, for noise and electric load purposes (EW, lasers, etc).