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For the love of god, no. This is an ad hoc solution. We need to stop doing ad hoc security/force protection and finally grow up and resource it properly.

The CAF did not absorb the Coast Guard. DND does not equal the CAF.

If they can make it go faster, that will make up for some loss in mass. However, when they did the “rods from gods” trials, they found out that, after a certain velocity, not much more penetration is gained, because the ground material cannot get out of the way fast enough and penetrator starts...

This might be the case…

Different sentence or replace the manslaughter plea?

I hope the judge refuses the plea deal.

No idea. Can they stay safe, flying low in weather goo that might include icing conditions, instead of going over it?

Not if reaper doesn’t have a heated, internal weapons bay, will they carry and drop torpedos.

This will get spicy if the Poles go Article 5…

I’d be a little careful with “blatant violation of international law” talk, if I were Qatar…

Riiiiiiight…. As much as I am sure Finland would like their land back from 1940I am not sure with population of 5.6 million, they are going to Moscow. OTOH, that Medvedev would even say such a thing is a bit of a telling commentary on how far Russia has fallen…

There a more than a few farmers in Western Canada that would like to talk to you about your theory that home invasions only happen in urban areas…

If you say do, but she was laid up in 1971. OPEC oil crisis did not occur until 1973.

Bras D’or was not a crazy bad idea, just one where the materials science of the 1960s was not up to producing hydrofoils that could stand up to the stresses of skimming, without cracks forming.

Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson on this week’s The Line podcast discussed this very thing. They also raised the very valid point that if people are conditioned to submit to criminal acts meekly, general deterrence fails and criminal acts with become more common and more brazen (a criminal has...

While technically true, I think the DMP would have to look carefully at the context of the alleged offence before contemplating supporting charges under the NDA for a reservist whose day job took them onto DND property, lest it open up an avenue for an appeal. A military judge’s first question...

The NDA seems to grant the GiC a great deal of leeway in making someone subject to the CSD. I am sure a Court Martial that involved a civilian would end up at the SCC over jurisdiction issues. It would be interesting to see that ruling…

QR&O 101.21 is actually pretty broad on who is subject to the Code of Service Discipline. Overseas? Everyone part of the Canadian Contingent is.

I spoke to some guys who flew State Dept S-61s in Afghanistan. They that they were really nicely overhauled and that they flew really well.

People could write, back then.