AH Challenge: Make Denmark a arms-producing powerhouse

The Vulture

Banned
Your challenge with a post-WWII POD is to make Danish companies a major producer of weapons sought all over the world, similar to Belgium or Germany.

Small arms, aircraft, tanks, doesn't matter what.
 

Valdemar II

Banned
Your challenge with a post-WWII POD is to make Danish companies a major producer of weapons sought all over the world, similar to Belgium or Germany.

Small arms, aircraft, tanks, doesn't matter what.

I can't really see it happen with such a late POD. Denmarks problem was that it had quite limited heavy industry. While we had a thriving arms industry it was never a powerhouse, mostly it was landmines, artillary and rifles.

But a suggestion could be no Marshall help, and the allies start the Morgenthau Plan, but give it up in the fifties with the growing strength of the Russians and DDR. So the allies decide to rebuild the German army, but with the German industry in ruin, they look to the neighbouring countries. Here because of lack of Marshall help most of the states are still rebuilding and they look to Denmark, which has suffered the least in the war and which has heavily militarised thanks to the fear of new invasions*. With the oney from the export to Germany are reinvested in continued weapon research.

*Denmark did something like in OTL, but because of the Marshall Help, Denmark dropped many of its heavy industries, because it could get cheaper products from USA. So weaponry was often imported rather than home produced.
 

Thande

Donor
mostly it was landmines, artillary and rifles.

More Korean War-type stalemates? Might Denmark capitalise on arming states that the US and USSR wouldn't, like (OTL examples) apartheid South Africa and post-revolutionary Iran? Might make it an international pariah, of course...
 

Valdemar II

Banned
More Korean War-type stalemates? Might Denmark capitalise on arming states that the US and USSR wouldn't, like (OTL examples) apartheid South Africa and post-revolutionary Iran? Might make it an international pariah, of course...

The problem was that with the membership of NATO Danish incentiment to produce weaponry fell, and the occupation made Denmark fall behind in many areas. So when the war ended we needeed to restart out weapon industry. But I know DISA (a major former Danish weapon producer*) produced landmines until the ban.
This would be a lot easier if we could place the POD before the War.
To international pariahship, Sweden are a major mechant of death, and they keep being seen as so nice and enligthen people.

*formerly known as Riffelsyndikatet and Compagnie Madsen A/S.
 

Markus

Banned
Your challenge with a post-WWII POD is to make Danish companies a major producer of weapons sought all over the world, similar to Belgium or Germany.

Small arms, aircraft, tanks, doesn't matter what.

They warm up the Kalmar Union which makes Sweden a part of Denmark and Denmark(danish POV) thus a major producer of weapons sought all over the world. ;)
 
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