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There still are a few Canadians in Bamako, serving in the UN HQ.

I thought I was being facetious, but then recalled the Canadian Army's reaction to a story in, I think, a Winnipeg paper about soldiers in uniform going to work on public transport carrying their lunches in brown paper bags. After much running around in mental circles, the army issued an...

As a relic of the old army, I'm waiting for the drill for donning and doffing masks to appear. Maybe it's time to replace "Greatcoats on. Greatcoats off" with "Masks on. Masks off".

It probably is a stall, along with a combination of desperation and self-preservation. He probably is hoping the  cossacks arrive in time to put down an insurrection.

We seem to be moving in the right direction. Thanks everybody. We need the capability to reach out and touch someone with precision guided weapons by a combination of air launched and ground launched weapons, and also to overwhelm the enemy close in with a storm of fire, again ground and air...

Indeed. People seemed to have considered precision guided weapons as a panacea weapon, to steal a phrase from Bomber Harris. Imagine defending a position shelled by a few guns using precision guided rounds, as opposed to being shelled by a couple of field regiments worth of artillery tossing HE...

Here is an example of Canadian gunners co-ordinating guns, a UAV, and a RAF Harrier to take out a Taliban party that probably was going to set an ambush for elements of TF 3-06. I wrote it several years ago based on several interviews and printed documentation. The event took place in late...

This is getting interesting. As an educated guess, the ten second figure quoted for the Russian system would have to be the timing to get a round in the air. In this time frame, the STA device would have to acquire the enemy gun/rocket being fire and compute the grid of the gun position...

A few observations from an old nuclear target analyst (a RCA specialty way back when) based on what I recall. The Beirut blast was relatively low-powered for the bulk of the chemicals. HE, or even more so, a nuke of equivalent power would have had a much greater effect. Re a nuke of 2-3...

Din I hear someone murmur "lay line"? In the mid-seventies we tried using certain regimental survey devices that used point-to-point very narrow microwave beams for distance measuring, one could talk back and forth between instruments. Given the technology of the time, it fell in the too...

The 8-inch was indeed nuclear capable. The British employment, in this regard, was similar to the Honest John, in that the section would be in a hide, prepared to deploy to a, perhaps one of several, prepared firing positions. When the deployment order was received, the section would move...

In the late 60s, when 4 CMBG was still part of 2 (BR) Division in 1 (BR) Corps, each division had a missile regiment of two Honest John batteries, each of two launcher sections, and two gun batteries, each of two towed 8-inch (203mm) howitzers. Our nuclear delivery unit, 1 SSM Battery, had two...

Absolutely correct. I looked it up last night, but decided to see who would catch me. The Americans did do some work on a 240mm round, but canned it.

Another reason I don't miss the old army was the plan announced at a 1 RCHA officers' mess meeting in Gagetown circa 1964 that involved a family luncheon on Sundays after church. The plan was that the married officers would bring their wives and kids to the mess for lunch. To give the parents a...

During the Second World War and into the 1950s the Brits and the Americans, and probably some others, fielded 240mm guns. In fact, the first nuclear artillery round was fired from "Atomic Annie", an American 240mm. It, the gun, not the round, is now on display at the US Army Artillery Center at...

That looks like the organization that came out of the combat development studies of the late seventies, and later morphed into Corps 86. It was recognized at the time that it was largely composed of "wish lists" and was far too rich for our blood, and just about anybody's else. With the collapse...

I tend to agree with Colin P. We do not need to replace the whole fleet with highly mobile, extended range equipments, but we should get something to equip the reserves and some of the regular force units. Money, or rather the lack of same, is going to dictate that we opt for something cheap...

I also wore puttees from 1957 to 1967 or 68, when they became a casualty of integration/unification. Little known factoid: all the corps in the army wore their puttees with the end starting at the bottom and circling upwards except for the gunners. We started ours at the top and worked down...

Not to mention Chief Executive Officer, Fire Chief, and Chief of Police.

I've seen it on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel.