kalmar union accepts as it will get even more people to work and boost the local economy along with the combined research spending and manufacture of military equipment
the military budget experiences a slight decrease as the maintenance assist service system enters military service as the cost of maintaining vehicles goes down. nonstandard vehicles like the F-16 and F-18 are put into storage with some being put in museums to reduce costs further. military weapon inventories have been fully standardized to reduce the differences between the finnish, swedish, and norwegian inventories. the savings are invested back into the economy