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Re cradle failures, see pic Barrel manufacture is far more complicated than the way you've described it Colin, but essentially it is correct that Canada's order would be too small, and unique, for anyone to want to make just the barrels, or piece meal components. There are manufacturers that...

It's not as easy as you might think to get someone else to make new barrels for this gun, or anything else for that matter for the C3; although Chile did work out a deal with Royal Ordnance to do so when they bought their version of the C3. Either way, rebuild or buy new, there wasn't anything...

Sharki9876, I don't think you're following what I'm saying: the response to the latest problems shows just how diligently the maintenance is being done.

I sure don't share sidemount's optimism The latest C3 problems are cracks at the muzzle and the machined clinometer area on the barrel (see pic) Inspections are ongoing using magnetic particle inspection techniques to determine which guns have these cracks (they can't be detected by eye). Any...

There are 28 LG1's in service: 1 is used for training weapon technicians, one is used as test bed for different purposes, and 2 are used for salute purposes in St John's.  The remaining 2 dozen are used in the Artillery School and the Primary Reserve Artillery units in New Brunswick and Nova...

In regards to the concept stage of procurement, I found this to be an interesting read; we could certainly use a shake up too in the way requirements are written. http://breakingdefense.com/2015/02/army-changing-how-it-does-requirements-mcmaster/

Heart wrenching reading his mom's words "he worked very hard for the Canadian people for the last three decades." Indeed, he gave it all :cdn: My condolences to his family, and to all who knew Sgt Salesse

If nothing else, the way in which Paul Franklin tried to explain his situation does show how much he misunderstands who is covering what. It kind of underlines what I was getting at earlier, that many don't get very good information to begin with as they begin the release process. It sounds...

IIRC, between 2007 and 2011, at least two did not accept a fuse setting and were returned to KAF ammo supply point, and should have been returned to the US It is possible there were others that did not take a setting and were returned as well Not sure how well that was tracked; I do recall there...

Fair enough comments, but your assumption about SCAN seminars are incorrect, at least from the one I attended in London 2 years ago, and another in Toronto last year. Both were incredibly vague, and the default seem to be this will be covered during your release interview with a VAC rep, if you...

While I was with TF 1-07, manning the OP at Sperwan Ghar,  I spotted two teenage boys, one carrying a sandbag with a large rectangular object in it the other a shovel. They were walking near the end of Brown route, and luckily I could keep sight of them through a 30X scope the sniper det had...

A very different image is beginning to emerge of Lt Lorrance The Army Times article implies the three on the motorcycle(s) were from the village that Lorance had ordered pot shots fired at, in order to encourage them to attend his shura. This seems to indicate the area had not been vacated of...

Um, not sure I can 'splain it better

Not sure, but I'd say yes; garbage in = garbage out. I was involved with design of the graphical user interface (GUI) for the first versions of the current computing device (IFCCS), and the design team did use some reference to the human factors involved in designing "glass cockpits". Even so...

Ah yes, it does take some patience while young gentlemen learn the black art of gunnery; even sometimes having to wait atop an M109 turret, with gun det humming "nearer my god to thee", while the gentlemen get their bearings in a bloody swamp! One of the more difficult concepts to get across is...

Nevertheless it is going to make some people wonder why the RCAF is picking all this fruit that is well past its best before date in the first place

There's something about your chief's story that's not adding up; generally, the only program available for someone to receive vocational training, that is not releasing medically, is through a program to upgrade their military skills to a civilian equivalent The limit is $5400, once, as...

A bit of follow up on this, the short answer is I can't find someone that can speak to whether or not the history books should be destroyed. The longer answer All I have left, with regards to the M109 fleet, are some emails on their possible sale to a foreign power, then disposal. In the...

M109 disposal team dispersed awhile ago, but I'll check to see who's minding the records (used to be me BTW)

If it really is important to some kind of research, I can put you in touch with those that would still maintain the records of these guns, but really I'm not sure what purpose saving those type of documents would serve. The gun history book is more a summary of the life; installation of parts...