Recent content by dimsum

Agreed on the Australia and NZ points, and I was really using them as force structure (not strat imperative) examples.

That would completely depend on the company but I doubt anyone would talk about it in an unclassified forum.

Sort of. The CIWS could have automated functions but there is still a human in the loop. That’s one system - the question would be multiple (up to hundreds/thousands) of UxVs - does a human need to vet all of the potential kinetic actions? If so, that person (really, people) would quickly...

I’d seem to agree. That, and meetings seem to be more focused virtually on topic than in person.

Most of the negative comments here are based on the Canadian context (too cold to keep a charge). Not really an issue in Australia. I haven’t driven an EV but presumably there is a “battery gauge” that shows how much longer it has until it needs a charge.

As others have mentioned here, Canada is walking a tightrope as we were one of the main pushers for the ICC in general, but also allied at the hip with the US. This is Biden’s complete statement: I wouldn’t want to be JT’s speechwriter because the words can’t be seen as too strong to either...

Hey, procurement dumbassery isn’t limited to the CAF.

That wouldn’t surprise me.

I don’t want to sound condescending (apologies to @PrairieFella if I come out that way) but they may be speaking from their experience as a crewman, which would (probably, I could be wrong) be viewing it from a unit/tactical level. That ground-level view is important but as we know from...

…and this time around we can’t convert car factories to building Hurricanes within months.

With our own lift, or using friends? But as for the idea of not maintaining stuff we can’t use right now, ask the RAF how they liked the years of not having a Maritime Patrol capability after the Nimrod was scrapped.

Ironically, I heard about the “tall poppy syndrome” (i.e. the tall poppy gets cut) first in Australia.

It’s a calamity and a wasteful war if you believe in things like “keeping your people alive” and “human decency”…

The way this is going, I think back to a line I heard that “Russia’s greatest export is women”…and not necessarily in a good way.

Yes. For all of the GOFO “inflation” I’m surprised that DOS SJS isn’t a 3*, based on the above.