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My thoughts too. It shows what the public thinks of our pacifism lack of a national security strategy. It shows British forethought into potential customers and their ability to take Canada's 'pulse' with the multiple national news articles regarding Canada and AUKUS. From the attention AUKUS...

I wonder if there's a few high level people in gov't looking for the best way to join this club in a way that is the cheapest and most virtue-signalling... Best case IMHO is to buy 2 more JSSs, 1 LPH, and 6-8 SNNs with all but a small number of SNNs in the Pacific. Perhaps taking the "Northern...

This thread has been highly educational, one of the most on this site. FJAGs post made me realize something. If we don't first fix recruiting and retention (aggressively in many ways) then we can't do much with our current numbers. If we don't comprehensively fix how to bring new people in and...

Format changed for ease of reading. To break the specialization down further and spread out the Very-High Readiness (VHR) burden on people down even further, you could have each Regt. have an assigned speciality and rotate on a 3 month VHR schedule: 1st Battalion have a specialization in...

Not sure if this belongs in this thread, please re-direct if it doesn't. I've been reading up on the UKs Very High Readiness response in Kabul, and Canada sending SOF there as well and I have some questions. Are we using SOF too often, and for too many varying jobs? Would the subdelegation and...

UK mulls 105 mm Light Gun replacement project by Christopher F Foss 28 JULY 2021 UK mulls 105 mm Light Gun replacement project

Not being sarcastic, I really do mean centralize emergency management in this country at a federal level. I'm not talking about creating an army of responders, just an federal dept to coordinate existing services. The minutia of who gets paid by whom and at what gov't level isn't what i'm...

Hard to swallow, but harder to disagree. It's a very dysfunctional dept with a budget that makes it easy to pluck from. Serious discussions should be had about the state of public safety in Canada. But first, could we talk organisation for a minute? Why not build a new "Dept of Public Safety"...

A very interesting point. I have a lot of questions, but the gov't of the day that makes a decision (and articulate to the public) on this will have to decide what these ships are specifically for. Are we responding to the bigger threat of the submarine weapons-race in the Pacific? Then why...

Glad the process has finally started. This is really gonna be an uphill battle since multiple parties have kicked all the 'defence' cans down to where we are now. Norway and Germany recently ordered 6 Type-212CDs for $8B CAD. Accounting methods and requirements aside, that's reasonable.

We should just jump into the UK New Medium Helicopter project. Project is to replace Bell 212, 412 and their Dauphins. Jump into it now and in 10-15yrs you could start replacing the Cormorants and Griffons. I think Airbus and Bell have considerable presence here for existing aircraft and offer...

Would it be prudent for the RCAF to assist (as a last resort) with aerial firefighting? Could accidentally get more airframes perhaps. Continue paying firefighting services from around the world to come here, but with RCAF support?

Similarly, forget about the tech specs, as gov't doesn't really care at the end of the day what the tonnage is, just about jobs. Would've been smart to do another 6 AOPS, but that's not possible anymore due to CSC timelines/priority. Call it an Restigouche-Class, make it a light-frigate UAS...

Unfortunately, history would agree with you. Another note, is that few here have thought of new jobs for a theoretical MCDV replacement vessel. We must anticipate what new jobs will be asked of this class for the next few decades, and not solely focus on what they do now. Otherwise, gov't will...

CCG is probably suffering from a driven-in mindset from decades of scraping by with what they had just to do the job. If they had some slack in enough pers and vessels, things would be different. Would have been smarter to have a larger fleet of CH-149s from the get-go doing ASW and Utility...

Back to the subject, I'm sure there's some internal thought as to what happens in 10 yrs when the Cyclone is matured and discussions need to be made regarding a refit or new fleet altogether. Im sure the cost of refitting an orphan fleet won't be worth the effort, and the muddled procurement...

CCG sounds like an organisation that lacks a long-term and strategic vision. If organisations don't evolve and constantly aim to air their usefulness to politicians (and public) then they are doomed to collapse. It's safe to say Canadians probably don't know we have a Coast Guard, or probably...

Won't happen, but buying a couple LSDs would be a cheap way to build an expeditionary or amphibious capability, or even convert to a permanent hospital ship. Could throw a little scratch at Davie for a conversion/refit. Run them for 10/15 years until a new Big Honkin Ship is built.

^Good news. Was there a reason given why there aren't any Mortar Carrier or SHORAD versions bought too? Seems like we're going full-LAV 6.0 anyways, why not go full-bore?

Another thought would be if we did get rid of a sub-surface capability and instead boosted another capability, what would even come close??? 1) A large order for P8s for the RCAF? 2) An all-in approach on XLUUV development or Five-Eye collab on existing projects? 3) Expeditionary/Amphibious...