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The last combat a tanker saw was in 2013. It was a ramming attack by a DDH...

I'm pretty sure the registry had lower punishments for non-compliance than posession of a prohibited device does. Also, I suspect the government will be looking to make examples of people. People are free to make their own choices, but people should be making the decision with a realistic...

I suspect the next time the CPC forms government, will be after the deadline, and they won't bother with trying to reverse the prohibitions. Maybe handguns, if they haven't been confiscated by then... While there are a lot of firearms owners in Canada, there aren't enough in the right ridings...

Anyone holding onto a former NR prohib after 30 Oct is playing a dangerous game with pretty much zero pay-off.

I think his meaning was far less complex that interoperability. If Canada doesn't buy enough fighters, the USAF will conduct more intercepts over Canada, because we won't have enough jets available. As for interoperability, @Good2Golf already mentioned the Rafale integrated with the USN...

I suspect you're correct. So long as they can move legislation through parliament, I doubt they want to risk an election. It's better for them to wait for some of their policies to bear fruit, rather than to hope that a bump from a great speech will carry them through.

That would kill sales to other countries, as they would start questioning if they were next. LM will likely try to sweeten the pot, not threaten us, to get us to buy more.

Mounting the gun is not the problem. Adding the fie control radar, and the magazines for the ammunition is a problem. We could waste time and effort trying to make AOPVs into shitty CPFs, or we could accept reality, and design/build the CDC instead. There is essentially nothing a 25mm...

In the time it would take to convert an AOPV, we could likely build a new OSV with the magazine and other features baked in. Kind of like how the corvettes came about. Switching to the new RWS used on the RCD? Reasonable. Converting the ship to use a 57mm mount? Ridiculous.

There is another option... We can live in reality and accept that the AOPV is not a warship. Then we can not pretend that slapping an expensive weapons system on a ship not designed to fight is a good idea.

You have hit a key point that I think people in the services don't appreciate enough. Seeing Constable Bloggings in uniform, interacting with people in a normal and human way, makes the entire police force (official vocab guidelines say service) more relatable, ergo more legitimate. Never...

To put them on AOPS would require rebuilding the entire front end of the ship, it isn't happening. The 57mm is a great gun for what we need smaller ships to do, so using what we have, or buying more updated versions makes a lot of sense. This isn't WWII, we aren't using the "main battery" to...

The reasoning in the orders doesn't really matter at this point. The Governor of a state is activating the state NG in response to the excesses of federal agents in his state. Regardless of whether they are there to protect the locals, or reign-in the feds, the likelihood of things getting out...

Making noise most likely, but I wouldn't rule anything out.

Typical CAF waste, I know a guy offering oceanfront property in Arizona, and it comes with a free bridge...

I'm not convinced it's that bad yet, but America has definitely diminished their position in the world. The EU may step up and lead, we really can't predict the future very well. 4 years ago nobody would have guessed that America's position would be so diminished.

China backing out was not on my Bingo card... Perhaps China is trying to appear to be the rational/responsible actor now that America has gone off the rails.

Why would Canada pay money into a "board" that they would realistically have zero say in? Inviting Canada and other Western powers was done to lend it legitimacy, not to ensure that it achieves its goals in a way that represents the values of the West.

I think its more accurate to describe me as someone who would b3 described as "rural" by the typical activist, such as the kne you posted. I live in downtown Ottawa, against my best judgement. As for the second video from the same activist... He's cherry-picking extreme examples to make...

I never said we didn't have people capable, I said that factories making tanks are vastly different from shipyards making subs. One is of significant value to Canada and other international partners, the other is of use every 30-40 years when we want new subs... We have people right now who...