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Not sure if anyone has posted a link to this interview from last week with Chris Sines, DLR, on Modernization. 🍻

It's an interesting idea. The M109 has been converted to the Bradley chassis as of its A7 version. The same for the AMPV. As a result there is much standardization of the automotives as between the M2, M3, M109A7 and AMPV fleet. My guess is that the US is interested in the K9s turret and the...

:ROFLMAO: I remember sitting at the table when we talked about that. My $0.02 was - do we do enough court martials to do that? I was frowned at. I was also frowned at when ZI suggested we move half the prosecutors and defence lawyers into jobs where they'd be useful. 🍻

No assuming at all. But hey. If rockets can do it all then why is everyone still producing hundreds of guns and millions of shells every year? They should be told that they don't need them anymore.

The problem currently is that the 105mm we have are of no value except training people in the fundamentals of battery deployment and operating. They have zero operational value for the types of operations Canada is doing. Self propelled 155mm for the artillery and self propelled 120mm mortars...

The reason I went to become the PD on CIMP was the JAG wanted to fire the PD who had been on the job for about a year without a true grasp of the business side. It took me about two months of digging into the project to realize that neither did the business analyst. No SORs had even been started...

Currently the M109 does not have an L52 gun. It's still just an L39 - I expect the next generation will have an L52 and maybe an autoloader. The M992 is my second choice after the K10. The M992 originally came with a small conveyor that stuck out of the ass end of the M992 to transfer ammo from...

Theoretically that should have been discovered in the business analysis done early on in the project. I've got to admit that the biggest challenge we had with JAG CIMP was trying to convince leadership how difficult the business transformation process would be and to provide the proper amount...

Your comment made me think that I really know little to nothing about the GOFO selection/appointment process. So I gave it about 45 seconds of intense research including this: and this: Which led me to the conclusion that its a pretty loosey-goosey process tied up in bureaucratese. I know. I...

The poor folks at DLR2 doing GBAD must be getting awfully confused. :giggle:

It can be done with GOFOs. Pitzul left the office of the JAG as a LCol to go work at NS Justice. He was brought back as a BGen to be JAG and later promoted to MGen. 🍻

Before they get there we send them to Toronto for a year and maybe a master's program somewhere. Are you suggesting that time could be better spent? ;)

Its L52 barrel. (Same as Archer and RCH.); Its 48 rds onboard storage (Archer 21; RCH 30); The K10 armoured limber vehicle with 104 rds onboard storage (Archer and RCH no equivalent yet - Boxer variant under development but limited to 38 rds); tracks and my personal experience with tracked...

It's kind of funny. In large part Advancing with Purpose and Afghanistan are to blame for that. Very many of the fire missions used single or two gun troops which delivered dumb HE rounds with sufficient accuracy to neutralize a position for sufficient time for manoeuvre to take place. The...

That's my point exactly. A cannon launched Hero is a waste of launcher. They can be launched from a 120mm tube or container of any type. In my model army every CS regiment has an LM launcher battery - I'm actually toying with the idea of an STA battery that has a troop consisting of all of the...

There are several. The S Korea model is the best. A recommendation for that type of project was very much part of the considerations of DLR2 (the artillery folks) and made its way to the desk of the VCDS in the early 2000s. It was rejected because of issues within the army unrelated to the...

Now that is a myth. 1 Cdn Div mobilized in Sep 1939. It sailed to England that December. In 1940 it was receiving new equipment to replace the stuff they were mobilized with and in the spring of 1940 deployed to France with the British expeditionary forces. In June 1943 it was back in combat in...

Is it a myth is it wins a war? :unsure:

The first thing to remember is that on a ship, the round usually comes as a complete package with a fuze, projectile, cartridge with a fixed charge and a primer. On the 155 series of ammunition, the fuzed projectile is separate from the charge bags (or modular artillery charge system (MACS)) and...