Recent content by KevinB

I’d suggest there is a lot of newer technology that makes some of the older arguments entirely OBE.

Entirely false.

110%. Heck even the JEF Light forces and JSOC units have prepositioned equipment. The reason I was specific on the C-17 was to give rough field and parachute deployment options. I hundred percent agree with you on the fact that aircraft purpose built basically for small cargo and passengers...

The thing that really kind of kills me is everyone bitches and moans about mobility kills with front engine vehicles. F engine is absorbing damage that your crew would’ve taken so instead of a MKL it would’ve been a K so take the win. The engine in the grand scheme of a 50-60t vehicle is...

I think the next Gen tanks will have common bodies with IFV’s and Close Combat Support Systems. Front engine (like the Merkava and Namer) Heavily automated 45-55t Modularity Optionally Manned will be a heavily desired feature.

20 C-17 would allow for a Light BattleGroup to be moved within a reasonable time frame, and provide the ability to move the BN sized GRTF worldwide in 72hrs while also allowing for other operations to continue. Of course the requirement would need to come from the Army and funds allocated...

I was really shocked when I found out that the UH-60 had just been converted over to digital production in the last 2 years.

Seeing what got done for the C-5M modernization effort - the entire airframe got digital models made - so it would be a vastly easier line to re-open than aircraft that where not done with digital modeling (and surprisingly enough a lot of modern stuff was not).

Don’t get me wrong I agree. In someways it really is irrelevant, as both lines are cold, and the numbers need to restart either are way beyond Canada’s grasp. I beleive all the older C-5 bodies where harvested for the C-5M upgrades / so unless one can find some boneyard birds, neither is an...

I'd like to point out that you currently have a functioning government... So the cheapest people in the world tend to be US Reps and Senators who are getting paid while ignoring the nation.

Keep in mind that generally no Western Army acts alone. The there are slightly more than 2000 NATO 4 Tank Troop/Platoons last time I looked at the numbers of Armor available (9,000 plus MBT's). The Estonia, Lavia. Lithuania border with Russia and Belarus is approximately 1,000km The Polish...

Convince LocMart to open the C-5 line ;)

I guess the follow up question should have been: Would you feel the same way with a tracked IFV (Bradley/CV-90), or a THAPC like the Namer? I think everyone agrees the goal is secure the objective with the least damage to troops and equipment. I'm left with the fact that the LAV 6.0 is wrong...

I know a 330 can’t move a Leo2 or LAV, so I think it’s important to differentiate what one means by Strategic Lift. Most of NATO doesn’t need or think about Strategic Lift in the same manner, as they are already in Europe. Not so for Canada and America. The 330 is a people mover - that...

I’m curious if that is still your position? Or if that has changed based on some of the Ukrainian conflict data. I’m still of the opinion the LAV 6.0 is a terrible vehicle for the mechanized infantry. But I’m also a dismount on the objective (or right right in front) believer.