Recent content by IRepoCans

Oh god yes, one of my pet peeves with the current C7/C8 pub and CFOSP is we teach that it's effective against point targets out to 400m but we have little to no range practices made to achieve that aim.

One could healthily argue that the current inventory we employ was for the COIN environment and we're now returning to the whole 600m-800m section effective range weapon loadout for LSCO without jumping into a whole new intermediate cartridge (which seems to be the play with the remainder of...

The new CFOSP isn't accessible on AEL yet, so we can't use it yet (I understand you can request access, but it's not real until it's on AEL in both official languages). Looked at some of the new PWTs, good changes but as you accurately pointed out ammo and range expediency is always a problem...

I think they're trying to do the whole: build the need first, then buy the kit. Shame CFOSP is dogshit for building marksmanship, and the kit will take forever to deliver.

Yeah, it's hard to employ the concept without the platform. The optic package, much like that of the C8A4 is still up in the wind; but also isn't looking good for the budget allocated.

The current infantry section and platoon operations BGL quite literally has a section sharpshooter with a 7.62 gas gun, been in the BGL for almost a year now. The sharpshooter rifle is also an active program within DLR-5.

There is no proposal to mount ATGMs on the TAPV; there were some talks about a LAV retrofit with NLOS ATGMs, but that went or is going no where. The newest thing that PRes RCAC will see is this "Recce Strike" task which involves 6 seater polaris ATVs with some kind of WMIK for HMGs and the GMG...

I maintain the only Army components actually exercising under conditions that honestly tests our capabilities are the light battalions going to JRTC and JPMRC. Everything else seems to be checks in the box where things don't actually get to fail.

The Inf School's DFS cell had some fun a while ago defeating some relatively new counter-measures with TOWs, much to the chagrin of some defence contractors involved. As far as these systems go, it's all probabilities of defeating the incoming projectile (which will also vary on the type of...

The Meaford experience.

Fairly, even looks similar to A1, only have shot a little bit of it and the cans came with a warning since the load is hotter than the current C77 ball. Not sure if it'll be widespread any time soon because I only saw it for the series of ranges we had in the spring and I haven't seen it on any...

Also not a fan of the MRR/IUR monolithic upper, somehow heavier than other equally rugged and removable handguards that allow the barrel to be free floating and still fix whatever clip-on optic, LAM and lighting solution you want. They're also a lot harder to maintain at the user level. Plus...

It's a big deal in sniper circles because of 6.5 Creedmore and some other 6mm used in gas guns to which gives you a semi-automatic weapon that can effectively pound out to 1000m with ease (at the expense of notoriously short barrel life and expensive ammo). But honestly, 5.56 and 7.62...

No one in NATO seems to be planning on departing from 5.56 and 7.62 any time soon. Also to note is that the Royal Marines are also getting a whole swath of kit on top of their new rifles: BNVD-Fs, clip on thermal imagers (because sure I2 is cool and all, but thermal/fusion is the new standard...

Oddly enough, they have designed their courseware to take suitable candidates from zero to 100 with an almost BMQ/SQ like (without the yelling and theatrics) package of instruction on small arms, marksmanship, fieldcraft and small unit tactics. They have also done this for a while, a good chunk...