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Hearing that the airforce is getting LRASM sooner than later. The Naval Strike missile may be built in Canada by Kongsburg as well. Not gonna lie, that's made me very excited. The arctic A2AD plan is coming to fruition. So when the AOPS has a problem the airforce can shows up immediately and...

Had this exact convo with my son, he looked at me like I was psychotic "Dad, those people are dangerous morons, I won't be hanging out with them. I still hang out with my friends online."

Yah Chicoutimi will likely never sail again at least from what I'm hearing. Parts bin and salvage for the other submarines.

My son just got accepted to a Coop with a local electrician. He's hoping to parlay that into an apprenticeship after high school somehow (either with the same place or with the experience he has as a coop). His friends are all thinking along the same lines. Not as many university or bust...

I keep saying that the army in Hamilton needs to move the the old high school on York (Sir John A..). Better parking, proper classrooms, newer building, gym, large training area out back (football field) etc... If they want to keep the armouries so much then they can renovate them in the meantime.

Gen Z is the toolbelt generation. They are leaving higher education for trades in droves. They just won't be able to replace them fast enough as they are not big enough. If you want to deal with this sort of gap, take a look at Spain, where they have tooled their immigration policy value...

I get it. My point (roundabout) was that a lot of people put the power into the hands of the Regimental Senates and rich locals when really the power is in the fact that there is no infrastructure budget and no money for fixing up facilities at all. The James St. Armouries was almost abondoned...

All of Canada's wars post confederation were voluntary. We could have said no. We didn't. If anything we should be mad at the UK for dragging us in at least in WW1. Not Europe. We made a choice to fight. As a business deal, we need the numbers. That's important for us as voters to decide...

Yes, so lets keep it until the asbestos starts flaking into the HVAC system and the entire place needs to be condemned. Or better yet it burns down one winter because the electrical is ancient. Sometimes old buildings need to be flattened when they are a hazard (A Block in Halifax is a good...

You are not wrong at all. Place is just so old.

Not really. Training requires challenging circumstances and exercising your skills. That includes increased contact avoidance and navigation work. And that goes for those who are already trained or those who need refresher training. Bridge crew who just sails with no contacts back and forth...

Those UAS are the size of a large couch. There won't be any weapons on them.

I know a guy working on that project. They UAS they are getting are for ISTAR only. Trying to install the best camera L3 can offer for the size. We're blessed to have WESCAM working out of Burlingtion ON. Some videon on the MX-8 they are going to use.

Getting rid of the army would be hard. They have some nice new vehicle bays there for all the local army maint. However if one were planning the entire army and navy's infrastructure needs an overhaul. James St. Armouries and the old Great Lakes Training Centre should either be torn down of...

Its in the army's plan. There will be a new (8 Hussars probably) Heavy Cav Regt to join the Strats and the RCD and 12 RBC will be getting medium cavalry tracked vehicles (CV90, Bradley, Lynx, Redback or whatever). And when it happens it going to be pretty quick.

This can only be a good thing for us. Two bidders fighting for the contract.

That's a bit left field. Perhaps Polish media had a better take that we all missed. But honestly looking at where Poland is, where Sweden is and what's a little to the left of them... makes complete sense to me. Industrial benifits, sub designed for the area, able to use each others ports if...

The RAN already went through this change. We're basically doing a lot of what they already had to do for the Hobarts. The difference was that they tried to do it originally without changing anything and it was a complete disaster. We're learning a lot from their advice. @Oldgateboatdriver no...

KNDS is huge. Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) Leopard 1 and 2: Widely used main battle tanks with various upgrade versions (e.g., Leopard 2 A7). Leclerc: The main battle tank of the French Army, which is part of the SCORPION program. Leopard 2 A-RC 3.0 and Leclerc Evolution: Next-generation MBT...

Do they have an alternate plan for frigates? Or they all in on their DDX super destroyer/cruiser/battleship with missiles concept now.