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Shortly after the MCDVs came out I was assigned as one of the ResF legal officer to advise the Reserve Force Employment Program which was one of those bright NDHQ sparks designed to make the ResF "better." My first round-table meeting with the project staff quickly made it clear to me that the...

True enough, but that generally applies to capital equipment. The vast bulk of defence expenditures are in the nature of personnel costs and O&M. ✅ That is very much one of the things that ought to high on the list of things to change. I'll spare you a repetition of my various thoughts on how...

This One question on the 30mm anti-drone capability - where's the radar?? 🍻

It's an interesting article, but the text shows that its more a question of manufacturing capacity than complexity which is the issue. That statement jumps a bit to this conclusion. The new factor here is cost. There is a difference as between manufacturing capacity per se and the cost of...

Sorry, but the cynicism in me just won't let go. The first problem that DND and the civil service needs to fix is the high cost of running DND which is unrelated to producing defence deliverables. In 2002 the defence budget was 8.5 billion. That was the end of the decade of darkness and the...

It's the right thread, but IMHO, the days of wheeled guns is far from over. I've worked on towed guns and SPs. they are different for different reasons. Regardless of whether your SP is wheeled or tracked, it can't be air dropped or moved by helicopter. That level of mobility isn't needed by...

I'm not sure that I'm a 100% on here but it seems to me that the WW2 experience was one of individual augmentees. We formed five divisions (and two separate tank brigades) that essentially went into combat but the units never changed for the duration. Canada sent formed replacement battalions...

Corps 86 was an often misunderstood and actively rejected concept that was championed by Charles Belzile when he was commander of Mobile Command in the early 1980s. It had actually started a little earlier. It had, to the best of my recollection several purposes: firstly it served as a model...

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That's an interesting post from several angles. For starters I've listened to some German reporters who seem to think this vehicle isn't so much the bridge to Leo 3 or MGCS but in fact is the initial version of Leo 3. Interestingly the speculation on MGCS was to be German Leo 2 type chassis...

Ed - I've copied this to my research folder for WAFG - arty transformation. I think that the seven stages of military endeavours may need to be shamelessly incorporated somewhere (properly cited off course) :giggle:

Tell that to the people that cut up our M109s. In answer to your question: No. I never will get over that. 🍻

I keep saying that the upshot from the Cold War "Forces in Being" concept that developed in some countries, including Canada, is that we concentrate solely on the forces that we need for today on a day-to-day basis and we've completely abandoned the idea of a potential force that we might need...

It's an interesting issue for debate especially for an army as small as ours. When you think back to when we had the Arty 022 Air defender and related officer trade, we had over 500 RegF and 500 ResF folks in AD and it was just enough organization with enough leadership positions to have...

As good a place to post this as anywhere. o_O

The Americans had that and decided to streamline the system to training one class of infantryman (and one of indirect fire infantryman) and leave the specialization of the turret (Bradley v Stryker v HMMWV) to the units. Both the MOS 11M (mechanized infantry) and MOS 11H (anti-armour infantry)...

I thought it was cows farting. Using Global Emission Statistics is Distracting Us From Climate Change Solutions 🍻

I guess that I have to ask why? Rheinmetal has already developed a Skyranger 35 option for the Lynx and the Boxer. Is this a way of getting folks who do not have or are not planning on Lynx but do have Leo 2s to go for the system based on compatible chassis? A Leo strikes me as overkill...

Actually the NATO guidelines include paramilitary force like a gendarmerie and coast guards. This from the NATO website. It's arguable as to whether any of our civilian federal agencies are considered covered as structured. But French gendarmerie and Italian carabinieri are counted and the US...

What I was suggesting was that one can build an AOPS which, for example, is designed from the start fitted for air defence but not necessarily having the missiles deployed nor the weapons systems operators deployed during peacetime. However, the missiles can be held in inventory and trained crew...