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Considering how much universities are subsidized here, they aren't waiting to graduate to sponge off the public. Fewer universities; more community colleges! ;)

The Navy couldn't have given a crap. They have their own air defence. Nope - an army smoky room. :cool:

That depends. Are they infantry illuminati cats? :cool:

Air space coordination measures will only take you so far in a fast moving large scale low level environment. This whole thing makes me firmly believe that all the folks who sat around the army's smoke-filled back room during the 2011-13 nights of the long knives where the decision was made to...

You've revived my favourite thread. I still maintain that if we had two RegF classes of service, both of which are liable for operational deployments but one which has unrestricted terms of service which allow involuntary postings and a second one which provided that the individual could not be...

I've just reread Hellyer's 1964 White Paper on Defence. It's actually a breath of fresh air, brevity and clarity compared to SSE and ONSF. 🍻

When I said "I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'Having marginal capabilities scattered across the Army, in light, medium and heavy, without coherent structures for employment or coherent support, is a perpetuation of the past without a plan for the future,'" I meant that I wasn't sure whether...

Going back to the MBT was an operational need that came out of several events. The first was the VCDS cancelling the MGS on the recommendation of Caron before he left the job as CLS in June of 2006. The project was eventually cancelled later that year. Concurrently he recommended the...

Just noticed this. This was the organization from when it was first deployed around 2007 to 2010. Originally the aim was to deploy 34 with each SBCT but this was reduced to just the three battalion's rifle companies for a total of 27. The system was problematic and by 2017 the number of MGS in...

That's interesting and actually got me to do some more research. Initially I saw an article that the UK gifted 45 L118s to Ukraine. But then. I note that the UK based versions of the L119 went into storage after the Brits had expended all their M1 ammunition in 2005. Further I found that New...

Bit strange for an article. There is no Brit L119 light gun. The Brit gun is the L118. It was designed to fire the L series of 105mm projectiles used by the Abbott SP. I believe it is 45 of these that Britain donated. The New Zealanders, on the other hand, had a variation of the L118 with a...

It's nice to see a government and military that thinks and plans for a future conflict rather than ones that can't think and accordingly can't plan beyond talking points for the next election. :mad:

Your BDS is showing again. ;)

That's true but it's a club based on quite different values than merely defence issues. In fact, I'd say that defence is well down the list of other economic, cultural, even climate issues. Remember that for a while it was the G8 with Russia included. In 2014 the G8 didn't expel Russia when...

We're # 10 in GDP - but China, India, and Brazil are ahead of us so we rank in the G7 but as #7. We are only a smidgen behind #6 Italy. Russia comes after us and Mexico after them. 🍻

They have the same equipment TO&E for five armoured BCTs and two Stryker BCTs as the active army - that works out to 15 combined arms battalions and six Stryker battalions. There are 5 18-gun M109A6 battalions in the ABCT and two 18-gun M777 battalions in the SBCTs. There are an additional...

How about because all of NATO, INCLUDING our dolt of a prime minister, agreed that everyone should. Worst government that I can remember - and I lived through all of Pierre and Jean's regimes. :mad:

As at 2011, the Australian army was organized into 3 active brigades, one mech, one motorized and 1 light. In addition there were ResF bdes. In 2011 they reorganized under Plan Beersheba into three active multirole symmetric brigades (more like bde groups as they each had their own arty, engr...

You know, the math isn't that hard. We have 5 paper divisions (and yes I'm counting 1 Div) 4 Reg F Bde gps and 10 Bde HQ. Redistribute those into 2 real division hq and 11 real bde HQs (lets say 2 armd, 2 mech, 2 lt, 2 arty, 1 Engr, 1 cbt sp, 1 sustainment or some variation) - 3 deployable and...

I keep saying that what you can put on a Boxer you can put on a LAV 6/ACSV chassis. The Boxer module concept is a bit off a smoke and mirrors thing. That said, the ACSV could have been modularized and future ones still could be if switching out modules from combat damaged vehicles is desirable...