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I sometimes marvel at the fact that Canada was able to build, equip and train a massive army, navy and air force in two to four years using just reservists and a handful of full-timers. ;)

Okay. So one more Bruce, Eh Mate? 🍻

I think they tried that and Russia vetoed. :unsure:

I'm reaching far back here in my mind but I don't think that either the Jay Treaty or the Treaty of 1818 had any mutual defence provisions - they just settled disputes. Same with respect to Ogdensburg which effectively was a brief (as in content, not in duration) agreement between the Prime...

In using current terminology, I'm being imprecise. By IAMD I mean what it says. By GBAD I'm referring to the current army's VSHORAD/SHORAD system for the manoeuvre brigade and not to ground based systems in the general sense. I agree. The main components of IAMD will be ground based. 🍻 In...

I don't. But that's me. I think the need to relocate systems is always there, even for once located in relatively static areas such as FOBs. I don't think the FOB-based type of warfare is dead. It's gone to sleep for a while but if the unpleasantness with Russia ends it may wake up again. Maybe...

Most of the European countries had a draft until late last century/early this one so the chances of being called up were around equal for everyone. Canada, on the other hand, has a history going back to the Vietnam anti-war movement of the "elite" rejecting any form of military association...

(y) (y) (y) There are a lot of simpler systems to do that which would be part of a dedicated sensor to effector system. A round could be designed to do the job from a 155mm but it seems like overkill. Okaaayyyy. I wouldn't hold my breath for an L52 barrel for an M777 beyond the test models...

I have absolute confidence that they can fix the reserve system starting tomorrow . . . if they put their mind to it. I have zero confidence that they will fix the reserve system - ever. I may be a dreamer, but I'm not a Pollyanna. If it hasn't been fixed in the sixty years that I've been...

Just doing some light math here but if a workweek for a full timer is 35 hours that means one person ought to produce some 140 hours of work per month. 400 hours/month would be the work product of three people. ????? Isn't that the equivalent of saying: "Bruce, Bruce and Bruce all showed up...

I can't think of any pre-1945 defence treaties that the US had, much less failing to honour one. There was intervention in both WW1 and WW2 and alliances formed but I'm not sure we can call those mutual defence treaties at that time. The Monroe doctrine wasn't so much a defence treaty as a...

Why in the name of heaven would you go to a crappy interim pop howitzer rather than getting a proper system in the first place? Because of inadequate logistics? The proper solution is to get the logistics system ramped up to do the job as part of the acquisition program. Let me simply say that...

I actually don't think we need them - we can continue to use clapped out C3s for saluting bases. For operational artillery for an army of around 25,000 RegF and 30,000 ARes I see the following (which equates to two small expeditionary-capable armoured divisions, a larger homeland division and a...

I must admit that I'm one to do snap judgements, but the M1A3 accompanied by a CV90 version and supported by K9 howitzers just feels right. 🍻

I can easily see this as a system for the LG1. Too tight for the C3. Two vehicles. A five pax with a load bed for gun stores and personnel gear and a two pax ammo vehicle with a larger load bed and a trailer. On deployment the five man crew bring the gun into action while the ammo vehicle...

Who owns the engine? and how easily can they mine and analyze the military work product? :unsure:

Hey @NavyShooter. I've got your next project right here: :ROFLMAO:

This matters That's plenty of time to turn off the taps. In the meantime three wasted years of forward planning on an ego trip. It's not the money wasted on designing this build, its the lost opportunity to design and build what is really needed. Who the Gods would destroy, they first make...