Recent content by Seyek

That's a bold and frankly ridiculous claim unless you have some evidence of an institutional effort by the Democrats to practice mass illegal voting. IDs don't equal votes, and each state has it's own process for registration and verification. The Heritage Foundation has a data set and map of...

True, I was on a one track mind with the Shahed attacks from the last week, I wasn't thinking smaller systems that would go along with any kind of ground response. If any ground forces are deployed, hopefully they've taken all the lessons of the last bunch of years to heart and been trained and...

Depends on how many they have left, and then can coordinate targeting and firing for. I'm seeing something in the region of 2000 drones and 500-600 missiles with the launch rates dropping more than 90% since day 1. They had most of their stockpiles and launch systems knocked out, had smaller...

That amount is the total amount, Voted and Statutory. If you're on the main estimates page you can go down to the individual breakdowns for each department where it'll break it out by voted and statutory. Very small statutory amounts but I think most of treaty obligated funding (healthcare...

I keep hearing about problems with the Sigs world - what's going on over there that's such a problem? Are there reasonably ways of correcting it and getting the trades back on track?

While true, and with the caveat that the office has only existed since 2008, I believe this is the only time we haven't had a PBO. The other appointments were either permanent or one temporary, and picked up immediately after the other. Not having one appointed is nothing short of a deliberate...

The office still exists at least, but I can't see any way to view this other than trying to keep PBO criticism to a minimum. Unless there's an actual rule in place barring Jason Jacques from continuing in an interim capacity he should have been kept on if they didn't have a replacement. This is...

Like any group, it's entirely dependent on the group's leadership and I don't know how it works for Sparkes. I did a quick check and shooting sports are still on the website (though only for scouts and up for firearms, cubs can do bows/slingshots/crossbows). I did beavers through scouts/junior...

I come from the infantry, currently work in digital stuff, and my experience with the artillery corps is mostly limited to firing 2 illum rounds out of a 60mm in the middle of the day in August. But in the world where we face a threat of constant ISTAR and attack from potentially autonomous...

Is there any actual evidence of malfeasance, or evidence of exceptional performance relative to any other company? 2 minute google search shows that Brookfield Corporation and Brookfield Asset Management combined would be the 3rd largest Canadian firm by market cap. They're in the top ten for...

I believe so. The original intent was also for 450 Redbacks, rather than the 129 they've ordered, and a second batch of K9/K10s which was similarly cancelled. They went instead for more HIMARS, littoral craft, free up money for nuclear subs, etc. Maybe they'll make small additional orders as...

New update: The US will provide insurance, and if needed, naval escorts for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

I've said this before, as have others, but we really need to re-examine numbers in light of moving to 3.5%, and the DIS. Off the top of my head, 150-200 SPHs for reg and reserve, training vehicles, deployment stock. Add ammunition supply vehicles and command vehicles and we could be anywhere...

Iran's drone carrier, I was wondering what had happened to it. I wonder if it was tied up in port or actually out sailing. The CENTCOM statement says they got it within hours of the conflict starting, so I'm assuming it was at port like the frigates. Regardless, someone gets to claim an aircraft...

The frigates were probably the least important part of Iran's navy. I'm more curious what they've been doing in regards to naval drones. They already lots of speedboats they could convert over and the capacity to build more. Could see Ukraine style strikes against mil and civilian targets in the...