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  1. GR66

    The War in Ukraine

    For the 2nd time since the Russian full-scale invasion Ukraine has taken down a Russian helicopter with an FPV drone: https://defence-blog.com/ukrainian-fpv-drone-shoots-down-russian-mi-8-helicopter/
  2. GR66

    The War in Ukraine

    Apparently they won't be shoeing the horses as according to this article one of the reasons the Russians are turning to horses is due to the risk of magnetic mines... https://defence-blog.com/russia-trains-cavalry-units-for-battlefield-operations/
  3. GR66

    Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

    Maybe it's time to tell China that if they want to sell their EV's in Canada then BYD should open a manufacturing plant here.
  4. GR66

    Army Reserve Restructuring

    Plans drawn clear as day, but fools in brass break the wheel— progress lost to pride.
  5. GR66

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Maybe....Maybe with a dramatic breakthrough in quantum computing you might get greater probability of intercepting incoming ICBMs but you still have the issue of cost differential. [Warning: info is from Chatgpt so take with a grain of salt and details on highly classified systems are hard to...
  6. GR66

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    And this is to track and intercept a single incoming missile. Now figure in thousands of incoming missiles along with decoys and multiple AD launchers of various BMD capabilities spread across the continent and the surrounding maritime domain (and Space if Golden Dome goes forward as planned)...
  7. GR66

    Canada's tanks

    Another threat to armoured vehicles that needs to be faced... https://defence-blog.com/poland-trials-gnom-drone-built-to-break-armored-assaults/
  8. GR66

    Army Reserve Restructuring

    WHAT??? Do you mean to tell me that Toronto is NOT the centre of Canada???
  9. GR66

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    My understanding is that the "successful" SM-3 BMD intercepts have all been done with freshly calibrated radars operated primarily by contractor staff in ideal weather conditions against non-maneuvering target missiles and no decoy systems. Intercepting real ICBMs in a realistic scenario with...
  10. GR66

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    To me, a towed-array - even if only a containerized system - and ideally a UAV with some ASW capability (sonobuoys and/or a light-weight torpedo) is a key capability. Hopefully they would have the capability of launching/recovering/monitoring/directing ASW UUVs and USVs as well. Enemy subs...
  11. GR66

    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    If you have a solid network of ground, air and space-based surveillance to identify any aircraft (or more likely missiles) entering Canadian airspace do you really need your stealth platform for that? I'd argue that the F-35 is best suited for our expeditionary ops where the stealth will be...
  12. GR66

    Canada's tanks

    A "threat" doesn't have be mean Canadian tanks facing Chinese/Russian tanks either here or abroad. As adversarial states they can stir up and disrupt regions of the world that are a political or economic threat to our wellbeing which might require us to use military force to defend our interests.
  13. GR66

    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    It would be a pretty boring show since you can't see them... https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-genuinely-seems-believe-f-35s-are-literally-invisible-n1131361
  14. GR66

    A Deeply Fractured US

    In all seriousness this is a disturbing development. Lots of very bad things have been done by people who are convinced they have God on their side while at the same time opponents of the Administration are being characterized as "enemies". I think the likelihood of radicals on both sides...
  15. GR66

    Medium Cavalry: Critical Capability or Poor Man’s MBT?

    Something that really needs to be kept in mind is that we don't really know what type of war we're going to face until we actually face it. Maybe ISR, drones, loitering munitions and artillery will force us into a relatively static front with small scale localized assaults and infiltration...
  16. GR66

    Medium Cavalry: Critical Capability or Poor Man’s MBT?

    I agree that strategic deception will definitely require specialized units. There's actually a great pair of episodes on "The Principles of War" podcast series that covers the British deception plan for the Battle of El Alamein (Operation Bertram)...
  17. GR66

    Medium Cavalry: Critical Capability or Poor Man’s MBT?

    With the modern "transparent" battlefield do we need additional capabilities for the Cavalry both for the screening/security role and for the recce role? Not really "new" capabilities but ones that might need to take a more prominent role with changes to the modern battlefield. Things like APS...
  18. GR66

    Leave - mbr has none left

    Tell me he was a Jets fan without telling me he was a Jets fan...
  19. GR66

    A Deeply Fractured World

    100,000 is a huge turnout. Heck, it's double what came to the Carrot Festival in Bradford this year! https://www.bradfordtoday.ca/local-news/thousands-dig-carrot-fests-opening-night-11085634
  20. GR66

    Trust in our Institutions

    Doesn't "integration" imply an alignment of policies and regulations to make interactions more seamless? The same type of alignment of policies and regulations that are being decried as being unacceptable when it comes to the EU?
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