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When Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor of California one project he invested in were two portable hospitals for use in case of a disaster. Not long after he left office they were sold off as surplus. And with a fair bit of fanfare of the current administration saving Tax payers money . Not...

Nobody's signed anything yet. Yet that word has become this administration's byword. That and the phrase has anyone seen the President's latest tweets yet ?

I have a good friend whose military career coming to a flaming crash stop in the Mid 70's while instructing on the proper and safe handling of a weapon system. A certain Captain who apparently knew more about....well just about everything kept " correcting " him. On the range said officer then...

I think back to news groups in the 90' s early 21st century when the subject of DU penetrators either in tank rounds or 20 mm ciws. People freaked , and not long after the Canadian Government decided not to purchase either APDS/ DU or 20 mm DU rounds. We're not just talking people...

That's never stopped someone from trying to sell to us and to be honest given past Canadian procurement history. I think you'd be hard pressed to tell me we wouldn't then still sign up for something that can't be delivered on. Afterall the end result is sometimes secondary to other...

What ever happened to that centrist party that seem to be a meld of small -c conservative and small l liberal ?

Wonderful . Instead of doing., " We fought a good fight a tough fight and while we didn't do as well as we hoped , we still accomplished a great deal all thanks your hard efforts on our behalf. But now we have to plan and prepare for the future while keeping the Liberals honest and holding the...

I've been off works for a couple of weeks now .I dread going back . My staff are Indian or Pakistani . I'm hoping that this stupid war doesn't translate into problems between some of them.

I'm sorry but I've been following the SeaKing replacement programme for about .... pretty much when they first started talking about replacing it in the mid to late 70's . ( Yes, I'm old .) Its been like watching the world's slowest train wreck occurr. It's as you say considerably more nuanced...

I beg to differ on the 165 mm gun . You don't mount something under Armour because no body's shooting at you. You mount it on a tank precisely because they are. While I personally think that DFSVs are solution looking for problem. The CV 90 is a damned good platform and that makes it a great...

The Rockville plant is still up and running more or less. The Black Brant was as I recall somewhat larger the a MLRS .

I see the Canadian Government and our senior military brass are performing up their usual high standard of competence. If anyone wants me I'll be banging my head against a wall. This stuff makes far more sense when I'm slightly concussed.😡🤬

Two things , Smith is dealing with a scandal that's beginning to look as if it has real legs. And two she's trying to run a political party that's riven by factionalism. Think Herding cats . ( The Extreme Edition) She's been doing this for a while. She goes a before a group and implies a great...

Electronic Warfare System : Type : UAV / Electronic Jamming unit. Subtype Designator : Potemkin 😉

A couple of notes , the Victoria class are still some of the most advanced and effective conventional submarines out there. But their aging out and there aren't enough of them to really influence things. The other thing the Royal Navy has begun talking about acquiring conventional submarines...

I have posted this elsewhere It's nearly the closest deal I seen in the past thirty years to perfection as concerns military procurement. I keep wondering how this Country's political and military leadership are going to screw this up. It is such a perfect deal how could they not resist trying...

If there is ever an air strike conducted at either of our two naval base my first question will be what did the Navy do to offend the RCAF ?😉

It would appear that DOD has subcontracted morale issues to the North Koreans ?

I keep thinking back to An Imperial cabinet room in St. Petersburg on that day in 1904 when someone uttered the phrase . " What this country really needs is a short victorious war ". I suspect it was repeated in 1982 in Argentina. People confronted with desperate times tend to make desperate...

I'd really like to know who are these guys and where do they get their money from ? Cuz this ain't cheap nor easy to organize. It doesn't matter to me whether they're doing it to Pierre Poilieve or Marc Carney I find this kind of tactic disturbing.