Recent content by GR66

For the 2nd time since the Russian full-scale invasion Ukraine has taken down a Russian helicopter with an FPV drone: https://defence-blog.com/ukrainian-fpv-drone-shoots-down-russian-mi-8-helicopter/

Apparently they won't be shoeing the horses as according to this article one of the reasons the Russians are turning to horses is due to the risk of magnetic mines... https://defence-blog.com/russia-trains-cavalry-units-for-battlefield-operations/

Maybe it's time to tell China that if they want to sell their EV's in Canada then BYD should open a manufacturing plant here.

Plans drawn clear as day, but fools in brass break the wheel— progress lost to pride.

Maybe....Maybe with a dramatic breakthrough in quantum computing you might get greater probability of intercepting incoming ICBMs but you still have the issue of cost differential. [Warning: info is from Chatgpt so take with a grain of salt and details on highly classified systems are hard to...

And this is to track and intercept a single incoming missile. Now figure in thousands of incoming missiles along with decoys and multiple AD launchers of various BMD capabilities spread across the continent and the surrounding maritime domain (and Space if Golden Dome goes forward as planned)...

Another threat to armoured vehicles that needs to be faced... https://defence-blog.com/poland-trials-gnom-drone-built-to-break-armored-assaults/

WHAT??? Do you mean to tell me that Toronto is NOT the centre of Canada???

My understanding is that the "successful" SM-3 BMD intercepts have all been done with freshly calibrated radars operated primarily by contractor staff in ideal weather conditions against non-maneuvering target missiles and no decoy systems. Intercepting real ICBMs in a realistic scenario with...

To me, a towed-array - even if only a containerized system - and ideally a UAV with some ASW capability (sonobuoys and/or a light-weight torpedo) is a key capability. Hopefully they would have the capability of launching/recovering/monitoring/directing ASW UUVs and USVs as well. Enemy subs...

If you have a solid network of ground, air and space-based surveillance to identify any aircraft (or more likely missiles) entering Canadian airspace do you really need your stealth platform for that? I'd argue that the F-35 is best suited for our expeditionary ops where the stealth will be...

A "threat" doesn't have be mean Canadian tanks facing Chinese/Russian tanks either here or abroad. As adversarial states they can stir up and disrupt regions of the world that are a political or economic threat to our wellbeing which might require us to use military force to defend our interests.

It would be a pretty boring show since you can't see them... https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-genuinely-seems-believe-f-35s-are-literally-invisible-n1131361

In all seriousness this is a disturbing development. Lots of very bad things have been done by people who are convinced they have God on their side while at the same time opponents of the Administration are being characterized as "enemies". I think the likelihood of radicals on both sides...

Something that really needs to be kept in mind is that we don't really know what type of war we're going to face until we actually face it. Maybe ISR, drones, loitering munitions and artillery will force us into a relatively static front with small scale localized assaults and infiltration...