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Ah Motion Sickness brings back fond memories NOT. I have found that there are different degrees to this fun sport. There are those who get sick when the ship is still tied up in harbour on a windy day. They do not last & transfer to infantry. There are those who suffer the first couple of days...

Hey guys i have a few more details of slowpoke i thought i'd pass on for info. SLOWPOKE (Safe LOw POwer Kritical Experiment) has been around for 35 years. It was designed by AECL Chalk River ON. in 1970.  Slowpoke 1 was transfered to U OF Toronto  that same year and had a power output of only...

Re: Mr. ST  I do not mean to insult him personnaly nor do i wish to belittle his service, weather 5 or 15 years he walked the walk , which is a lot more than most correspondents ever do. I do not deny his ability to write or turn a phrase unlike myself who can't spell worth a pinch of coon****...

VERY INTERESTING !!! TIMES INDEED. Is Bill Graham a leader and the best MND in a decade or is he someone who will reject and have all policy papers rewritten until they conform with what he wants , not necessarily whats best. A former MND named Paul H.  led also, but not necessarily where...

Ahhhh The old days. When i went to boot camp we were told to pack up all our civvies including underwear & tooth brush and send it home to mummy. We were told ,If the service wants you to have anything it will issue you with it. That was the last i saw of civilian dress for at least 2 years. We...

I still believe that the Leo c2 despite its shortcomings (many) is still better than the alternatives proposed by NDHQ.  Simply put, a MBT of any type charging at you full bore firing its main gun has a higher sphincter factor than a MGS , ADATS ETC.  A good question is , do all the so called...

HMMMMMMMM. Whats this i hear that NDHQ is studying a new weapon for the forces. The ROSS rifle!  seems to make as much sense as many of their other idea's lately.

Those Pinzgauer's look like they would be fun to drive when it was pouring rain or -20 .  Do they come with A/C.

Sounds like what we need is to be like the US Marines . They have MAU's (SOC)  1200 - 1400 strong with Tanks, LAV'S , APC'S, Artillary, Engineers, Light Infantry, Helo Gunships, Helo Trooplift, Air Support  etc., etc. all worked up together loaded on Amphibous ships forwarward deployed and ready...

A ship going into refit is a lot like taking your car into Midas for a $69 brake job.  You just know ,your not going to get away without paying a lot more than that.

Then again some dreams become nightmares. It seems the Brits had to retire their previous LHD early and the world situation being what it was they requested the shipyard building HMS Albion to speed up delivery. Now the yard building Albion hadn't built Navy ships for awhile so its workers were...

You forgot a couple Kirkhill.  The Netherlands still designs their own boats although none built recently, in fact they supplied Taiwan with their last 2 boats . Dutch shipyards would like to supply more but the government put the kybosh on that after China's actions after the first 2. Another...

A couple of points to ponder gents. Taiwan desperately wants diesel subs. All the countrys in the world that design & build diesel subs will not build any for them because they are terrified of China who threatened to cut off trade with them. Now the U.S. wants to supply Taiwan with diesel subs...

For your info most of the navy ships are already equipped with the 20MM Phalanx guns and they are soon to be updated to the Block 1B  Phalanx surface mode version .  This incorporates a side mounted Forward Looking Infared Radar (FLIR) which enables it to engage low slow or hovering aircraft and...

Well after reading through this thread i thought i'd add my 2 cents. 1.  In reference to swapping crews on forward deployed ships rather than changing ships, i believe the U.S. Navy didn't find it very sucessfull simply because the ships were going 24/7 and they quickly fell seriously behind on...

Try giving Scott Taylor a call at Espirit De Corps. He might be able to help you become a famous war correspondent.

Hey guys i accept the 100 lashes i should have proofread my post more carefully. I meant to say Lt-Gen Hillier would run up against someone the likes of Bob Fowler, i realise he's not still there. The point i was trying to make was that he might not always be able to get his way because the...

We complain about our defence budget and certainly it could be increased but one problem seems to be how we spend what we do get. Whoever is running this lashup doesn't seem to know what they are doing or where they are going . Why did we spend millons upgrading the C1  to C2 leo then only to...

I don't believe anyone can provide much insite into NDHQ.  I recently read where there were close to 5,000 uniformed uniformed personel at NDHQ the majority of whom are officers, if true what are they all doing. Maybe if some were returned to operational units they wouldn't be understrength...

Greetings to all you defeatests & nay- sayers. To all those in uniform you should all fall on your swords if all you can aspire to is a 3rd rate military. To all those Liberal bashers you have very short memories, when the Conservatives were  in power they too promised a lot but delivered...