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My understanding is that rare earth elements are not actually rare but don't appear in concentrations by themselves. They are typically extracted in trace amounts from the tailings of other mineral mining operations. The problem isn't that Canada doesn't have access to rare earths themselves...

I'm glad Trump is focusing on the most serious issues... https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/articles/cx209jnkl5xo

Apparently there are issues with the 8 wheeled Caesar system as well... https://defence-blog.com/czech-army-threatens-to-halt-payments-for-caesar-howitzers/ It seems that taking a weapons system that works on one vehicle chassis and just plopping it on a different chassis isn't as easy as...

I wonder about the logic of a weapon system on an armoured vehicle that requires you to remove the armour in order to use the system. To me it makes sense to use a turreted mortar system on vehicles that are armoured and an open air system on light, unarmoured vehicles.

An interesting new capability being developed for Virginia-class submarines: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/07/u-s-navy-multi-packing-cutting-edge-torpedoes-for-magazine-depth-in-the-indo-pacific/ I wonder if these would be compatible with the torpedo tubes on the KS-III?

And in true Army.ca fashion, tying this back to the discussions about restructuring the Reserves...rather than expanding the current, dysfunctional Army Reserves to 100,000, how about we restructure the existing Reservists and give them tools like these?

Or fewer, but effective and equipped combat arms units?

A potential role for Air Reserve units? Have a permanent set of passive receivers set at strategic locations across the country. A threat environment emerges (military threat, G7 meeting, World Cup, Olympics, terrorist threats, Leafs win the cup, etc.) and a unit roles in with a couple of...

While creating a nation-wide integrated radar and AD system at the scale that @Kirkhill envisions might be impractical (i.e. short and medium range local detection vice the long range, wide area detection systems of NORAD), perhaps a reasonable approach would be to install a series of passive...

Which brings us back to this... https://www.twz.com/air/mq-9b-airborne-early-warning-variant-could-fill-major-aerial-surveillance-gaps How many of these could you get for the price of an E-7? From the article linked above: So a larger fleet of lower powered transmitters (along the lines of...

Thanks for that. Does there not remain a role for an airborne sensor like an AEW&C aircraft as a node within the ground/air/space sensor web, especially with the massive area we specifically need to cover? How expensive is a network of fixed location transmitters and receivers providing...

Are manned AEW&C aircraft "dead" in a NORAD context? Any meaningful air-launched attack against North America would have to be by bomber aircraft. An E-7 (or Global Eye) should be able to detect a non-stealthy bomber before coming within range of Air-to-Air missiles carried by any fighters...

Update on the USMC's "Long Range Fires" (LRF) Tomahawk missile launcher on the JLTV platform that was mentioned in the post above. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/06/u-s-marine-corps-abandons-tomahawk-missiles-doubles-down-on-extended-range-nmesis-in-fy2026-budget/ Instead the USMC...

Actually, buying Chinese ferries might be a good thing for the CAF. If the Chinese used one of their existing designs they are probably built to military standards...

Again from our friends at ChatGPT:

That's already the case. As per ChatGPT: Edited to add: HavocFour beat me to it

The 1.5% Defence related infrastructure goal shouldn't be hard to meet if you include building pipelines to ship oil and natural gas to Europe to eliminate their reliance on Russian and Middle Eastern hydrocarbons in addition to northern infrastructure projects. The 3.5% direct military...

Measles?

I think Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb might suggest that there are no airfields in Canada that don't require solid security/anti-drone protection.

The question is...do the Iranians want to close the Straight of Hormuz. China purchases about 90% of Iran's oil exports and that oil flows through the Straight. Close the Straight and you lose the income. You would also be cutting off a sizeable chunk (10+%) of China's oil imports. China...