Recent content by Fabius

Interesting thing is by prioritizing “operations” and “readiness” what is actually being prioritized is routine peacetime operations. If you think that Major Combat Operations are going to breakout in the next 5 years, prioritizing peacetime operations over modernization will result in your...

In general terms the next 10 years are going to see major changes across all our elements, equipment and organization. Leadership keeps saying that maintaining operations is the main effort but that’s going to run into a hard reality. Operations may have to take a backseat to modernization for...

Burris RT-6 with a 12 o’clock mounted Burris FastFire wearing the Burris weather hood.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11550289/canada-ranks-low-on-military-oversight-study/ A good article on the relationship between Parliament and the CAF, with the GoC and DND in the middle. It’s a fundamental problem in our culture amongst all the players.

An interesting item is that if we are serious about building out Cdn industry we can’t do projects like that. We can’t have competitions open to all. We need to invest in and develop the industry. It would mean not doing a fly off for the next fighter lead in etc. it would mean we need to...

This is much more realistic than thinking Canada will develop a 6th generation fighter. It’s a strategic plan more in line with what other countries have done. We talk about South Korea, they have undertaken an almost 30 year plan to get to where they’re at now in terms of fighter aircraft...

Let’s say Canada joins Saab in developing the next generation aircraft post Gripen. Or we join with GCAP and develop that one from time now. Is Canada mature enough to commit to designing and building a fighter aircraft with zero competition, zero bidding etc? In effect we tried that when...

I am not sure the CARBs are going to work out. Having 3-4 CARBs manned by Reservists on Class C contracts with one deployed overseas at all times might sound good. I am sure the Reg F will be happy, as the reserves will be providing immediate effects. However those effects will likely come at...

Perhaps if you were to look at this planning guidance along the the lines of “Conscription if necessary but not necessarily conscription” it makes more sense. It could be a means using existing NDA ARAs to attempt to do something like what Germany is doing. Just without having to say that, nor...

Some highlights from the Unclassified Cdn Army Modernization Order; Defence of Canada Division. Primary force for Dom Ops. Basis for mobilization and provide tactical, operational and strategic reserves. Primarily ARes augmented with Reg F. Backbone for TBGs, IRUs, ARCGs. Will Comd all 10...

Interesting aspects to mobilization. A planning figure during the lead up to WW2 by the US military was that a modern economy could support approximately 10% of its workforce being mobilized. This factored in specifically to the allocation of basically PYs to the services and in the design of...

Has the GoC, DND or the CAF offered a task, purpose, rationale etc for what they want this expanded body of personnel to do?

If Canada is mobilizing, a lot of the large departments and agencies that have the bulk of the Public servants are going to be very involved already. Taking public servants from CBSA, RCMP, DND, Fisheries and Oceans, Corrections Canada etc to fill out CAF seems like it will be robbing Peter to...

There’s reporting out that DND and the CAF tiger team is taking a literal Whole of Government approach with a COA of enrolling volunteers from the public service into the CAF Supplementary Reserve… Interesting option, can’t say I think much of that choice but it a choice. If it comes to pass I...

Interesting. I guess that Colt Canada is doing the Danish contract with existing equipment. This matches with my understanding of the rather slow C6 delivery schedule being driven primarily by manufacturing capacity.