Recent content by markppcli

Nothing says indirect modernization like ww2 era guns being shot buy people in forage caps.

I’m in Latvia for the second time. It’s not begrudging - it’s an accurate assessment of the actual “stress” of this deployment.

I suppose working in an arty unit and the fires world generally I hear it more often that others might.

You get like three weeks of leave after. Plus your annual. For most troops in Latvia it’s not exactly balls to the wall, especially now that you can get weekend leaves and go off base essentially when ever you want.

It is

I was responded to the statement that the EU and Canada didn’t start rearming until the election. Which is objectively false. Canada has yet to begin rearming at scale, while Germany did announcing its budget increase in 2022. The countries in Europe that have actually begun the rearming process...

Safran makes great stuff. The JIM Compact / Mosquito are incredible.

And anticipate the whole thing to be relaid when European manufacturers sue us. @daftandbarmy yes, most if not all European armies are using newer night vision and laser aiming devices. Hearing pro is less common.

That’s objectively false, European Degrnce spending was on the rise as of 2022z look at Polish and Baltic resenting.

Edit - I plead the fifth As an aside to this the fact that training safety mandates specific pieces of equipment has always struck me as very awkward. I suppose it’s a good thing for CADTC that we only update body armour every quarter century.

I’m issued a TYR Pico right now. I meant more in general. @KevinB the people who said the tac vest was built right are the same people who were obsessed about the need to dig while wearing a frag vest.

3000 set with an option for more seems like a lot. Oh well I’ll retire with the tac vest I suppose.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1NkLLEJJcD/?mibextid=wwXIfr Seems new kit is in the way. The Canadian Army is streaming towards 2010!

T90s aren’t the big issue. I’d be more worried if they were building large numbers of T80Us / BVs.

Well the point was two fold - one it wasn’t in 2008, two it wasn’t actually picked. All which is to say it never happened.