I see it come up every now and again, so I feel like asking, what sort of heavy hardware, especially military hardware, do you guys think the Foundation has? Armored cars? Tanks? Fighter and attack aircraft? Large military seacraft? Satellites and spaceships?
Me, personally, I don't see the Foundation having anything they can't easily handwave away as one of the following: 1) mundane Military activity, 2) mundane Law Enforcement activity, or 3) mundane front company activity. So they have a few of the Big Guns, but they almost never use them. The exception is the MTF whose number escapes me; they're nickname is "The Bigger Boat," and they're basically Foundation-aligned Navy personnel drafted straight into the Foundation. Like, the Foundation tells the US or Royal Navy "We want that one," and the crew comes as part of the package. Otherwise, they use things on-loan from cooperative militaries or make due with more mundane means of kicking ass.
So what do you all think?