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I don't think there is a solution to specialized vehicles like the Combat Engineer stuff, I'd say the best way to manage that though would be to create a project to replace it all at once, to one OEM, and then use the TAPV model sustainment to ensure the contractor has to guarantee parts and...

Not at all, like I indicated I am carrying 15 days of 1st line parts for 200 A and B vehicles, exactly as I am suppose to by doctrine.  The fact that it takes 7 seacans is because of the amount of different platforms I have to support...  There is a CFTO called a Permissive Repair Schedule that...

At a fleet level yes this is true, but at the tactical level, it would be much better to have an entire fleet based off one OEM, with common parts across light, medium and heavy trucks.  As it is right now, I at 1VP have 7 Seacans of parts to support 15 days for a mobile mech inf Bn.  If I can...

I was hoping for Oshkosh, but likely came in to expensive, or not enough Canadian content.  The problem I see in the the future is that just because Mack won the MSVS, there is no guarantee that they will win the LVM-L or LVM-H or even the ERC Wrecker....so we could end up with 4 difference...

At most the LAV is a APC that after dismounting it's section can be used to support the attack, much like a mobile large caliber fire base.

I think this discussion is a bit theoretical on the CA side as unless something radical is about to happen with PY's, we do not have Infantry Pioneers or Armoured Assault Troops, and no plans to change that.  Our TAPV's are being used for transport for Cbt Spt Coy, ie Recce Pl and Sniper Pl. ...

Without risking getting into OPSEC level info.  Canada never had LAV IFV, our LAV's were never equipped or employed like say the US uses the M3 Bradley, that would have been more the role of the now cancelled CCV project vehicle. We do have ISC and CP, including the upgraded LORIT models.  We...

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I'm pretty sure that the Enhanced Recovery Capability project is looking at both a LAV6 stryker type MRV, and a new heavy Wrecker.  But either way the ERC is not scheduled to procure anything until 2023....

They likely want them protected under armour.  And yes, what I thought when I read the article was that this extra power storage was on top of the standard batteries, in order to not have to start the engine for up to 8 hours during surv ops.  The Coyote had all sorts of issues with batteries...

That is exactly what what it means, there is not other spot to put a winch on a LAV3/6.  Now even with the normal ISC/CP LAV6 only 1 in 4 get a winch, so maybe the SSM's LAV in RECCE Sqn will have the only winch :-/

I'm surprised that the other CTC schools including the RCEMES have not adopted a similar "collar dog as a badge" policy...

Back in the 90's all regF units in the west were centralized in Edmonton or Shilo, we had ASU's in BC, but as part of the last round of closures the ASU's were closed and their functions moved to the PRes Svc Bn, with a small fraction of the PY's being moved.  So right now only the RCN and RCAF...

Yes after you complete your training at the RCEMES, it's very likely that you will end up at one of the RegF service battalions, or Gagetaown, shilo, or Wainwright as possibilities.  If you are hoping to get close to home I'd ask for 1 Svc Bn in Edmonton or Shilo or Wainwright, that is as close...

The Queens Royal Lancers is/was the allied Regiment to Lord Strathcona's Horse(RC), guess they will have to change that in the books.

The only problem with that is that the American's will promote people if they score above X threshold and worry about finding them a job at their new rank later.  We being a small military can't do that, so even if you score well on a test, it's no better than getting that MOI, if there are no...

Can be made into RCEME mess kit with only changing the colour of the epaulettes

The only smaller-ish type wheeled vehicle I see coming eventually will be the LSVW replacement, though I'm betting it'll still be in the 2.5-5 ton range, but still much smaller than the MLVW/HLVW replacements.  Might be the only new vehicle suited to actually moving troops close to A1/F ech and...

Last I heard both the turrets and the ITAS systems are in storage in Montreal.  The ITAS were deployed as night vision to A-gan starting in 2008, with no missiles.  But since then the turrets and ITAS have been in limbo.  I'm honestly not sure what that Army plans to do with them, but I do know...

Sadly that MatKnet writeup, like so many of our still official LEMS policies is outdated and badly in need of a rewrite.  Only UCRs are still done in UCRS, TFR's are in DRMIS now, SA's are dead period...and I have not seen a MAR used since the 90's either...