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I know you and others have a hate on for wheels. I don't share the hate. Nor does the construction industry that spends a lot of its time off-road on lumpy, inaccessible, soft and muddy ground. Likewise farming, mining, drilling and forestry. They have tracks. Indeed they do. But the...

Meanwhile https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/the-us-army-disbands-historic-horse-units And.... ....... So the US Army retires its last hay-burning horse while Japan produces a battery operated replacement. We are swapping veterinarians and farriers for mechanics and electricians...

16 year old with a shotgun, some string and some lead slugs. CUAS entrepreneur. https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/how-a-ukrainian-gamer-created-anti-drone-ammo-that-saves-soldiers-lives-11699

https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/land/dsei-2025-rheinmetall-and-lockheed-martin-present-fuchs-jagm-tank-destroyer Further to... Extensive target set in the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/world/europe/denmark-buy-long-range-weapons.html Buying weapons they hope they never have to use: a deterrent force. Kaliningrad? Or Greenland?

https://visegradpost.com/en/2025/09/16/six-nations-plot-13-million-tank-shopping-spree-bae-systems-prepares-massive-cv90-combat-vehicle-order-while-ramping-production-to-250-units-annually/ Finland Sweden Norway Estonia Lithuania The Netherlands Looking open a production line for hundreds of...

You can't bet on being able to pile on enough armour plate either. Everything is a gamble. You like to talk about onions and layers. Everything is a matter reducing the odds along with some skill and some insight. The Ukrainians didn't survive 4 years by having more of the best kit. And...

I believe that L7 gun the Ukrainians are touting on the Leo1A5 is the same gun that was on the Abrams M1 and the Stryker MGS and is on the Booker (which is not a tank) and has been proposed in the CV90105. The gun also has an interesting mix of new rounds from the US. HEP, KEP and canister...

Yep. Those ones. Is the RCN interested in arming them?

Can the MASS system be brought ashore? https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/dsei-uk-2025/2025/09/mass-nova-ship-protection-system-breaks-cover-at-dsei-uk-2025/

Small scale UCAV for the RCN. Suitable for Corvettes, https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/air/dsei-2025-thales-plans-lmm-firing-trial-for-peregrine-uas

The old tank destroyers used to use tank guns to engage tanks with similar guns, The only means they had available to create a tactical advantage was to create a local mass by means of deception, camouflage and masking terrain. Ultimately though they had to congregate, to concentrate, and as...

Further to.... I know I want continental air defence control of the air approaches. I know I want control of the seas and the maritime approaches.

@FJAG I am saying, precisely because neither corps seems to have a grip on what they have to do and how they want to do it, and they are both competing for the leadership of the defence of Canada, that Bill Murray was right...

https://www.facebook.com/reel/763820186427248/?v&mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v Stephen Ledrew, past president of the Liberal Party of Canada, who knows a bag of hammers when he sees it.

You know, I have no problem accommodating people who want to get paid for doing things they like and do well. But only if I need those things done. First principles time: What do I, the Government of Canada, need my combat arms to do? Given that then I hire those people that actually want to...

@KevinB Words separating us again. My proposal for discussion was to remove any distinction between the RCAC ("cavalry") and the RCIC ("infantry") beyond the cap badge and train both elements to the same standards in the same tactics. After all I keep hearing the rejoinder to any proposal...

To be fair, the Chinese then rebuild them again in 2-7 days in 6 months time when they fall down.

Stuck in that tank rut.

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