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I am certainly not fascinated with mounting missiles and UAVs on every tank, and I am not tracking that major powers are looking at that? CUAS, though, is a broad capability. Some are quite simple to operate.

Well, the story of the tank has always been the story of combined arms. I am not sure what you are driving at? My thought is, barring a true breakthrough in materials or powerplant, the current generation of tanks are good. New programs will likely result in lots of money spent for no real new...

I joined in 1989, so I guess I am getting well-seasoned... I was on Cougars in the reserves while I was in university. I was a tank troop leader on C1s in Petawawa and a BC on C2s in Petawawa. We left our tanks in Wainwright at the end of the BTE...I was recce after that (2IC and OC) but...

With regards to Leopards in 4 CMBG, the RCD had two manned squadrons of 19 tanks in Germany (A and B Sqn) with another tank squadron in storage at Lahr with caretaker staff. C Sqn was in Gagetown New Brunswick with its own tanks and they were the "flyover" squadron. If "the balloon went up" it...

When was the IDF using the 60mm high-velocity cannon on operations? I do appreciate the higher rate of fire and number of stowed on-board kills associated with guns over missiles, but there might be a reason why that 60mm cannon did not enter operational service on AFVs outside of Chile. The...

Is it possibly time for someone to take this thread out behind the barn and humanely put it out of its misery with a P320? Or some other firearm of choice?

I was on that Ex - Troop Leader. We'd already passed that point, but a scary moment! On a later FTX in Gagetown my Bravo went into a hole around Scotty Dog and we were only able to save the tank as it slipped-in further by connecting the other three tanks and hanging-on until the ARV and Badger...

I was in the ARes (1H) from 89 to 97 and then Reg F after that (RCD). The Coyote was a Lynx replacement. The 3 x Reg F Recce Sqns each received three Troops of seven Coyotes. Each Patrol had a Mast and a Remote while the Tp Ldr and OC had the clean variants. The Reg F Mech Battalions received...

The Coyote was never intended for ARes service to my knowledge.

The Regular Force mech infantry battalions had Coyotes in their Recce Platoons from 1997 until 2003. They were then all sent to the RCAC. Any use of Coyotes by ARes units would have been very episodic. I recall that in Ontario there were some ARes personnel trained on Coyote (sometimes ahead...

I was ARes when the Coyote started to be fielded and was Reg F at the RCD in 97. The Coyotes were never intended for the ARes. Some ARes received Coyote quals as part of regional initiatives, but this was not part of the fielding. The three Reg F Recce Sqns received a mix of Coyote Mast, Coyote...

News sources that are usually credible and understated are reporting 1000 dead over the last three days, with over 700 being unarmed civilians executed by forces aligned with the government. The government’s security forces are a patchwork quilt of former insurgent groups, and there are reports...

In what seems to be the language of diplomacy these days, the Israelis do indeed appear to be holding the cards. Having said that, do they want a larger area to control that would, no doubt, turn into an insurgency? To your point, do they need to find a balance between making hay while the sun...

To lighten the mood with all the stuff going on I thought I would look into what is going on in Syria...The new regime does appear to be trying to govern the country, but they have several areas of concern. The Kurds continue to hold their areas and there have been clashes. Regarding the...

I am not finance, but the Comptroller Branch has reported to me for a couple of years which has given me a few insights. They are hard-working and there is some pressure that goes with the job. On any given Friday afternoon they are looking after someone that needs something right-away. They...

You could watch it twice on a High Speed Rail trip between Toronto and Montreal.

Its been a few years (well - three decades) since I took what is now called DP 1 for Armour Officers, so take what I say with that caveat. All army officers take BMOQ-A, which is a challenging course. You are in a field environment for much of that course learning about leadership in the...

The German army left Shilo in 2000. The decision to move 2VP from Winnipeg to Shilo was announced in 2001. Perhaps balancing out the economic loss on a small town by an offset from a major centre within the same province that would still have a major DND footprint (RCAF) may have played a part...

We do have several sources of AFV. Our Leopards, for instance, were built in Germany. The General Dynamics Land Systems facility in London is quite impressive and produces a variety of AFVs. It is an important national asset. We have AFVs from other manufacturers and we also have soft-skinned...

Well, the Canadian Army defines an Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) as a vehicle with cross country mobility, armour protection and a weapon system for close combat. We then add new definitions for light, medium and heavy (tank). The definition does allow for a broad range of vehicles, but I...