Recent content by AmmoTech90

Except the UCP doesn't care about Alberta residents unless you own an oil or gas company and have been faithful contributors to the party coffers. Any financial benefit the province accrues will flow to O&G and not improving the lives of the province's poor and ill.

BMQ/BMOQ/CLC/QL3/etc are the practice periods.

Sounds right, I was there in 89 for Fallex and 90 to support the Gulf War from Baden.

1990 the dependent guards were still armed.

Sorry to say that due to accidents and incidents in the past CAF/DND regs do not permit the sale of salvage. That being said it is not illegal to own the cartridge cases. You might be able to source them from the US. If you find them for sale in Canada they were either sourced prior to the...

I know the Americans have/had HEMTTs with a modified bed to hold pods, and a trailer as well. Each could carry 8 pods so I was mistaken there. The only reason I know this is a National Guard/Reserve unit showed up in Gagetown and they had just converted to 155 from MLRS and still had the MLRS...

Around a 15 minute reload if everything is perfect. Each reload (pod x2 missiles) will take up 0.5 or 1 truck. So a nice long line of trucks to keep up your continuing barrage that is really pulses every 15 minutes.

And that right there is why we don't have to worry about building logistical capacity. If we aren't serious about waging a sustained war we don't need sustainment.

FFS, the missile failed, it just clipped it with a flight surface, for some reason they used a 9X. Any of those could result in the missile's behaviour. There's a thing called momentum, maybe that's why the debris carried on for a second. People are dumb.

I did write a memo/service paper suggesting this shortly after I got back. The senior ATO at the time, understandably, pointed at Supply Tech levels which were in the shitter and said it was a non starter.

Sure. I was the Ammunition Technical WO for the British CSupps troop in Helmand. I had two LCpl ammo techs (Canadian QL4 equivalent) who had been authorized to perform issue inspections and fraction cans without direct supervision (QL3 everything watched, QL5 work on own). I also had a Sgt &...

Good storage, 50+ years. I used cast TNT blocks from Op Snowball in 2022, metal clad 50lb TNT charges mfr in 1944 in 2004/5. First thing to go on a projectile would be the metal components from corrosion. How many days do you want to fight for and with what? How long do you estimate our...

If the whispers I've heard about new energetic storage and processing infra are true then Canada will be well served. The expansion to support units is also long overdue. I will stand by my belief there are tooany ammo techs and what we need are better trained supply techs that can make a career...

Doesn't matter. They take the same fuzes, have the same compatibility class so they can be stored together. What is needed is more infrastructure to store what the army refuses to get rid of. If you keep getting and needing more stuff that needs specialized storage, it gets tiring pretty...

And they tried for part of a year in the 90s. But they used 106RR. We stored their ammo in Wainwright (a few eyebrows were raised when a couple of pallets came arrived a few years after the weapon left service). Apparently it didn't do the job very well and Canada just fell back on the old...