Recent content by Kirkhill

Just did some quick figuring based on on-line numbers. A budget of something between 200 and 500 million CAD would suffice to supply a body of 32,000 with: Uniforms, PPE, a smart phone, a side arm and a carbine. A C9 and an M320 GL for each fire team. A C6, a DMR and a CG84 for every two...

And what forces does the US hold at readiness domestically? And why is your bossman, and his predecessors, asking us to do more domestically?

No problem with adding a divisional structure with enablers. You figure out what you want to do with the Canadians once they are in uniform. My aim is to get as many of them into the pipeline as possible regardless of physical condition. I just want to get them engaged and find out who is...

Post in thread 'RN Project Cabot and Atlantic Bastion' RN Project Cabot and Atlantic Bastion RN looking at 2 UxVs The surface sloop Type 92 - largely a RRB to secure comms to underwater vessels but also for towing sonar arrays. The subsurface Type 93 - an XLUUV The 92 seems to be some variant...

RN looking for uncrewed vessels, new built in civilian yards to commercial standards, to be joining the fleet in the Atlantic bastion within two years. Explicitly referencing the Flower program...

I like. But if two different formations of two different sizes for two different purposes how about two different names? 1x Inf Battalion with companies and platoons. 2x CA Squadrons with troops and sections. Both could come from the same regiment with the same cap badge.

You call it depth. I call it utility. The mantra for as long as I can remember is that a soldier trained for what you now call LSCO can do any lesser job therefore we should train and equip everyone to the highest standard. But The cost of equipping and training a full time professional army...

So you are now talking about the variety of munitions available to achieve a given effect. Is pre-fragmented 120 in common use? Which launcher has the best pre-fragmented round? Or the largest variety of rounds? Or the most best of class rounds?

Carl Gustaf 84 mm HE 441B 0.42 kg Mortar 81mm HE M362/M374 0.95 kg Comp B-4 Rocket 70 mm HEDP M151 1.0 kg Comp B-4 Mortar 120 mm HE NAMMO 2.0 kg TNT Rocket 70 mm HEDP M229 2.2 kg Comp B-4 Howitzer 105 mm HE M1 2.2 kg Amatol Mortar 120 mm HE KNDS 2.5 kg Comp B Howiter 105 mm HE L31A4 2.9 kg...

And nobody in their right mind wants a 105mm round, especially if it is more expensive, eats up 155mm barrels and ties up the 155mm supply and delivery system. Right?

Bugs converting CO2 to CH4 https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-added-bacteria-to-a-reactor-making-high-grade-methane/

I feel your feels.

20 plus years of trying...

What are you complaining about? The howitzer or the control?

PS can you get back to Canada as quickly as the Air Force if you are needed?