Recent content by FJAG

My son lives in Vernon and his wife's family have a house on that reserve. They've been evacuated and are now safe with my son. It's a nightmare there. But it's not an unusual event, either. :(

Here's an interesting one. Note the aircraft that the American HIMARS deployed on. 🍻

I think you need to focus on the term "strategic" within "strategic partnership." The CAG/GoC certainly has a transactional history with GDLS-C. I was around when we got the AVGPs then built by General Motors Diesel (GMD), GM's defence wing. The expected winner of the project was...

I thought we were talking about Trump's reneged promise for PAC3s made in Turkey. At this point the FP-7 is pre-production and quite different. 🍻

Except Trump has once again done and about face and hasn't given the okay to produce there. Guess Putin was against it. :giggle: 🍻

I can assure you that the Canadian army is following developments on a daily basis. HIMARS is the LRPF program which is funded and contracted for the delivery of 26 systems and ammo. That tends to close the four decades long project for the time being. That's not to say that there will not be...

And how much of it came out of contracts that the Biden administration had already signed before turning over the reins of power? :unsure:

Wish they'd had any of these programs when I transferred from RegF to ARes to go to law school. Tuition and all fees and books ran at about $2,500 per year in those days. Best money I ever spent but a little help from the CAF would have been appreciated. These look like great programs. For...

I'm pretty sure that this isn't the last word on this case. The issue of what constitutes a "loss" isn't the relevant part here. I think it has more to do with the word "governed" v "guide." At the end of the day, payments out of the fund for losses are discretionary "Governed" may have been a...

Now, that I agree with 100%. We learn as much from trying and failing as we do from succeeding. We do have R&D but there's never enough and never enough trials and evaluations either. Ukraine's situation truly is one where necessity is the mother of invention. 🍻

I take the point on the use of UUVs. It makes sense. OTOH, I'm not sure why one would go to a STUFT if one could develop smallish purpose-built UUV mine hunting tender ships to move and deploy them. In the long run it should make control and training them easier. 🍻

Not a sailor but I can do math. Not having two JSS per coast simply doesn't make sense if preparing for a wartime scenario. Ships will be lost or at best go down mechanically. You can't run two fleets on two (three) coasts thousands of kilometres apart with one ship. You might get away with that...

Sometimes one has to throw a lot of crap against the wall to see what sticks and what slides down. As I said, it's effectiveness takes a lot more evaluation than we can do here based on the odd article dragged off the internet. It's only "now moving towards series production," meaning that...

Many of those won't be reusable as they will be destroyed enroute to their target and I expect the cost of one of these munitions will be equal to or more expensive than a guided cannon-launched projectile. It would take better study then we can do on this forum to determine the usefulness of...

In short and IMHO, No! There's a world of difference as to air self defence, which should be decentralized and broadly deployed using people who are trained to operate in the units they belong to but also have limited air defence training beyond their own weapon and subunit and area air defence...