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I don't disagree, there are some arguments that the dedicated dismounted forces may have some slightly different requirements than than those who aren't; but I'm not airborne enough to understand that line of reasoning.

We're painfully slow and adverse to change.

To some extent yes, by which if any of the small scale procurements made under DICE get made into larger scale acquisitions under SOCEM. Otherwise, maybe only Recce and snipes within the Mech Bns (albeit they already have their own equipment program). Really the only different kit under DICE is...

CADPAT MT will begin issuing out in 4 Div sometime later this year starting with combats, rain gear and bush caps (which would go to 2CMBG lines first); but Ontario is a weird place and I wouldn't be surprised to see just COs and RSMs with it and us regular folk still in faded combats until next...

Was referring to where on ACIMS, but if it isn't there it doesn't matter. I wonder which capbadge will end up owning the LIB, or are they just going to bring up a new one.

Where was this posted under? A near full strength light infantry battalion with all the dedicated CS and CSS enablers it would require would follow with what I've been hearing out of Gagetown with the DICE program and some of the new LF doctrine that will be formally updated/introduced in the BG-Ls.

The PRC-163s are plagued with issues from what I hear; hell an 18E I know is doing all he can to hold onto their MBITRs and 152s. Funny considering since USASOC went with 163s, and the US Army is going with IMBITRs (which are Type 1 TSM capable btw). Plus, we're odd about purchasing new shiny...

Don't even have to be new, just need to have them, and actually train people on them before a pre-deployment work-up. I'd kill for a handful of MBITRs (or IMBITRs if we're going for future-proof) with long whip multi-band antennas from Shakespeare.

That's easy the division training centres will take them, or they're tucked in MSA somewhere never to be seen. I was on a reserve PLQ / ISSC where 95% of the course had never used MNVGs on let alone a PEQ-2 or PAQ-4 (the latter two we didn't even have on the course). Rant on: Hell, we didn't...

WP is pretty widespread now (even amongst the white side of SOCOM): Australian Army runs PVS-31As complete for all combat arm units and their direct support (to include their reserves); the French, the Germans and the UK are phasing in WP dual tube systems for combat arms (Elbit based for the...

I am not sure if I am a fan of multiple small coys, because that ultimately leads to much smaller platoons that lack the capacity to carry certain capabilities and in turn the mass capable of sustaining a handful of casualties before being rendered ineffective. Plus I don't see how we'll manage...

I thought we were looking at the Spikes within the 5-7 km range so we could actually outrange MBTs as dismounts, the newer Javelins also reach out to 5km. Either way, would these merely just be available to the DFS pl or would they find themselves within the rifle coys? Because a brigades worth...

Precisely, I believe only the Americans (and really it's only the Rangers because of their dedicated air assets) can conduct a theatre entry against a near peer threat. Now, airmobile forces to facilitate NEOs is something we could do; especially if such a force regularly practiced with the...

Considering neither have touched on theatre entry in quite some time (jumping with the 82nd or the 173rd onto an airfield once every few years doesn't count), you could argue both are inappropriate for the role. The joint theatre entry experts (the Ranger Battalions) conduct an annual 8-week...

Last time I worked with 1RCR, the boats were all crewed by 2 pers (3IC was the crew comd / gunner) and the remainder were dismounted. I think this variation of the sect org is actually in the new(er) pam as well, a lot of this boils down to unit SOPs though. Same way how the Patricias have their...

Looking at the video they really only showed (and talked about) a particular battery that does a lot of that shape shifting ninja kind of work; however, they also tend to do a lot of work with them and the shaky boats; and, you gotta sell the army side of the Commando capability. I am curious...

X has a limited slice of the capability / mission sets that SRR has, a lot of what SRR has done and does (inclusive of it's former titles) falls under the CANSOFCOM umbrella. Well, CSOR kind of traded its hard (scalable upwards) fighting power to go more into the IW and capacity building...

Funny thing is there's nothing Commando / Ranger about the proposed unit other than the name and that it is somehow more special than the specialist infantry battalions that it going to use as its nucleus, other than being a brigade / regiment postured towards DDMA / FID / SI or whatever it's...

Electroactive polymers are pretty cool, they have some interesting potential for load carriage and artificial muscle tissue like structures.

The C20 SASW is not replacing the C14 MRSWS, nor is it intended to be a multicaliber platform (if it were, the secondary chambering would probably be 6.5mm not .338); the program is to replace the fleet of AR-10Ts and the EIS that came with the system (or more likely purchased by the employing...