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For aircraft carrier type ship, yes I would agree. I disagree with this. Priority one defence of Canada. Priority two is defence of North America. So our first two priorities include the Arctic. The paradigm has shifeted and not everyone here has noticed yet. The Arctic is our security...

Aluminum I'm pretty sure we're good on. Steel is specialty for icebreaking. So no idea. Might have come from Finland for all I know.

You're missing my point. The army, because it equips men (not mans equipment), will never ever get load carriage, tac vsts or boots correct enough so people stop complaining. Its an impossible task. Because every individual has their own individual preferences. Which means people will never...

Sure, but not family.

All that electronics and we wonder why the availability rates are low.

Wasn't making a comment on the overarching viability or survivability, just commenting that its a cool video.

Anyone else see the video of the GDLS-C built ACSV surviving 5 drone hits and still going. Lost 4 wheels and kept on motoring. Ukranians had added drone cage to it was the only mod I could see.

Who cares? We do the far blockade and choke China off from Singapore and beyond. Stand off outside the first island chain and send ordinance into the straight, following the Hellscape doctrine. Come out and play. The Baltic is a UAV and missile playground, why even go there? The terrain is...

Well inflation is much higher now than when the original AOPS came out. Also the CCG AOPS were added later so they lost some of their purchasing power by adding on more ships later instead of buying common parts in bulk. Third CCG AOPS have a generally new design (aka NOT the same class) for...

You don't ship refined product (normally) because that's actually about 30 different things (oils, bitumen, diesel, gasoline, natural gas, methane, lubricants, additives etc. etc...). You ship unrefined product and ship from the refinery to local markets. Much more economical. Energy east as...

BC doesn't control the waterways, the federal government does. BC can say whatever it wants, but oceans are federal responsibility. Fist nations are not a pancea. They are owners of pipelines, natural gas and oil, and some are owners of the LNG plant in BC. Some first nations will block and...

That might not be the final solution, its a GDLS solution. It might be a 120mm that is lowered from the back of a lighter vehicle to the ground. But it's not going to be overly complicated over engineered high maintanence required system. I agree with the army's direction on this...

The current stuff does the job, is used by fire fighting organizations in Canada, and I feel safe. The old stuff did not do any of those things. This new load carriage system looks like it will do all the jobs asked of it, better than the old stuff.

Sea days are calculated based on 8hrs at sea including the day you leave and the day you return (even if those are partial days). But that only changes the amount of SDA you get. SDA pay itself is based on your billet. Each billet is either sea going or not. If its a sea going billet you get...

This isn't Carney's plan. Its the first ministers plan. The premiers brought their projects that they wanted to prioritize. All the first ministers (and staff) worked together to short list those projects. Then cabinet will prioritize and fund. Some projects will be green lit immediately and...

Honestly it doesn't friggin matter what Gen it is. Does it work the way you need it to? Yes or no. And if I've learned anything on these boards since 2007, when it comes to load carrying, rucksacks and boots NOTHING is ever good enough for the army. Always something to bitch about because...

I'm going to highlight something very clearly here. I can confirm the following: The 120mm mortar solution will not be exquisite. It will be a tube with people dropping rounds into it. It will be fully dismountable from what vehicle it attaches to. It will be used exclusively by the infantry...

It's not such a big deal with the RCN. There are obvious "sea going billets" that get SDA. Either through potential to go to sea a lot or the risk associated with keeping a ship floating whether that be alongside or doing the business. There are edge cases (as there always will be) but I...

Being home doesn't have to be the criteria. Anything over 6hrs in the field could count. So a range day or whatever. X number of days per month could count. Or just a re-examination of billets that have a reasonable chance of spending X amount of time in the field on a regular basis could be...

For Canada, Germany will not restrict the submarines. We have an MOU and other agreements on naval cooperation with Germany. Lots of good cooperation there.