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I had thought from previous discussions the numbers for MCAV was ~500 and HDFM ~250 no? Gunners moved H Hour ahead without telling anyone again :ROFLMAO: HDFM has some pretty specific attachment modules. I do not see the HDFM being the same platform as MCAV, short of a Merkava/Namer...

Can't be proven to be broken down if you tow them, they may have just been saving fuel y'know :ROFLMAO:

Well with all the kit that appears to be on order - the PRes is going to look like CMBG's - probably better equipped than the CA RegF CMBG's have been to date.

Russia does a slew of third party transactions. Anything sold into several of the “stans” tends to not be for them, but for Russia. They have more than just a shadow fleet, they have tons of shell corporations worldwide to effect sanction evasion.

Kill figures during a war (and in cases of fairly non permissive areas after) are next to impossible to work out. Tons of casualties got dragged across the border in Afghanistan into Pakistan as well, to often be replaced by more. Even closed sources on Ukraine and Russian casualties can vary...

Smaller target profile… Oh and few running vehicles.

The 3/4 of Century of Darkness.

OMFG that almost sounds like a plan.

My concern is with ~5k LAV, ~500 CFV’s who crew these? Especially if there are more Tracked IFV/APC in the matrix. Don’t get me wrong I think more equipment is fantastic. But if a BN has ~100 vehicles that is a lot of vehicles, even if you have a 100% War Stock.

I thought they died along time ago with the Buffalo?

Tell me you have had no business dealings with the Turks without telling me…

Ideally three, potentially 4. Rotary Aviation (Hook, Griffon, Cormorant, Cyclone MH-60 ;) ) Fixed Wing Fast Jet (F-35, F-18) Fixed Wing Turbo Prop (Herc, Kingfisher - anything else? ) Fixed Wing Jet (C-17, MRTT, P-8 and AEWCC)

So the Armoured School isn’t… Canada (well the CA) wants to have 2 RegF Armoured Reg’ts. Now that is ~90 MBT’s, simply for operational units. One would need at least a Squadron + for training at the Armoured School. Plus ones for the RCEME folks to use for training on maintenance...

CABC in Edmonton used to house the Mountain clique. Mumble mumble something about it being a task for Airborne - eye roll emoji isn’t loading for me. Where quite frankly any Army serious about Mountain work generally puts the school well actually in the mountains or as close to as possible.

My big concern about that is while down here there is the 19K (M1 Crewman), 19D CavScout MOS, and 11C (Mortarmen), 19C (Bradley Crew) and 11B's in those units. -- in Canada, the Infantry and Armoured line serials don't split like that. With "unification" of the 11B Infantryman of the 11M and 11H...