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That should be what all of us say about Hati. Hati has been an independent nation longer than Canada. That they haven't figured out how to manage their own issues in that time is not our problem to solve. I get that they haven't been free of outside interference/influence, but no country has...

Fair question, but an equally fair question is how much of that prooduction will leave America when planes start getting shot down? America has already throttled multiple exports orders for AD systems and HIMARS, why imagine they won't do the same for F-35? If the F-35 doesn't use the F414...

Good luck to them! I suspect El Salvador has more of a stomach for the fight than any of the rest of us do.

So more ISVs and modern Milverados? Stuff the local GM dealership can maintain, and still looks cool to the locals?

As a kid on PEI, my optometrist was South African.

I agree 100%. There is a lot of data that is publicly available that is entirely fair game for reporters and interested parties to comment on, and reporters would not be doing their job if they didn't. I think the Global article from earlier today is well presented, and seems like it's...

I had someone claiming to be a investigative reporter reach out to me on this platform because I pointed out what a quick google search could find. There are definitely sharks circling for a feed on this topic.

Did you not see the video? They can literally put two pods on the same truck, and still fit it in a C-130. In 2006 they could have made the same two pods fit on the same truck. They didn't, because the customer was obsessed with precision fire, not volume fire. I'm not saying you're a bad...

And apparently the new LM kit doesn't either... So either technology has shifted massively in the last couple of years, or LM has realized massed fire matters now. I'm sure you're more of an expert on FCS and all things artillery than I am, but it seems pretty odd that LM is now magically...

Between April 1st and April 23rd I am budgeted and prepared for war... after that, to quote Sam Jackson in Jurassic Park "grab your butts".

You're asking for more than the CAF can give... The ask to dig down to the numbers would have to be so sweeping that it would be unmanageable. Every layer of admin has layers of admin... A Buffer might have number for qualifying each member of the ship's company, but then that's filtered...

Fair... not GWOT, but the same mentality. Precision over volume. There is no world in which the pod needed sponsons for FCS, in which the FCS couldn't have been mounted in the cab. The single pod was entirely a function of the 90s-20s obsession with precision over volume.

It seems like a product of the GWOT (which it is), so that makes sense. Back in the GWOT, we weren't deleting grid squares with rockets, we wanted precision fires on demand. In the current context, I see why they are pivoting to more firepower in the same footprint.

I'm guessing the SME's do have numbers, and were told by higher to "adjust" them to meet the budget requirements. When the budget, and "cost savings" are the name of the game, people play games with requirements.

Having your largest trading partner declare economic war on you tends to do that. It's also unsurprising that America is not as seriously impacted by their choice to engage in economic war with Canada.