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I literally loled at the security clearance portion. We can't get security clearances for our own people in anything resembling a timely fashion, getting that sorted for ourselves and industry will be great. I like a lot of what it says (from what I've skimmed so far), but I worry this be more...

Direct link to the strategy, I think I pulled it from another thread here but I already forgot who posted it, sorry and thank you.

She was actually Harper's PCO who got booted from the job by Trudeau a couple of months after he took office, though she was brought back as PCO 2021-2023. Harper's last industry minister think's she's a fantastic choice. I have no idea one way or another but it's unfair to lay the blame of...

Tracked stryker motive gear, ACSV hull, MGS turret. You're welcome. I might see if I can 3d print files for them and digitally kitbash it, you can put it in your mess.

Apparently between lower wind costs and reduced demand for natural gas it's saved them £104 billion. I don't have the time or energy to do any kind of deep dive but some quick googling shows £0.03-0.06 per kwh in wind generating costs vs £0.04-0.08 for gas. Countries and companies all over are...

Don't know about the Ontario Regiment, though I don't believe they're particularly small. The QoR are, I believe, the largest reserve unit (definitely for the infantry, and I think overall). Lincoln & Welland, Lorne Scots, and Tor Scots are all in the west (well, plus Etobicoke). No armour unit...

I absolutely have, particularly on courses, including leadership courses where PT was specifically not allowed except for the PT instruction portion. I hope it's gone away, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it pop back up. I assume it's mostly a reserve thing, with varying forms of stupidity...

Are there any resources (either DWAN or publicly available) to read up on our space based capabilities and future plans? I'm interested in knowing more about the subject but don't really know where to start learning about it.

According to the CBC we need to buy 72 Gripens and 6 Globaleyes for 12k jobs. I think that number of jobs is suspicious at best and frankly ludicrous as others have already pointed out here, though maybe accounting trickery can play a role. I'm actually a Gripen fanboy, I really like it, and...

The fundamental problem with this plan is that's built on the idea that there is in fact a coherent defence need for the US that it does not already have the ability to address. There are already long standing agreements that give the US an enormous amount of freedom and control in establishing...

Cannon. Rounds on a resupply vehicle don't count for much if the firing platform is gone and if all your resupply vehicles are dead you can still load them onto other vehicles. The US signed a deal with Hanwha to explore integrating a 58 caliber barrel onto the K9. Maybe the M109A8 will simply...

So they either failed to properly manage their fleet or they decided it was more useful providing spares that they presumably didn't otherwise have as they wouldn't have had to pull them if they weren't needed. That still sounds like a win, though you should be producing sufficient spares to...

That is a 100% self inflicted problem, God didn't descend from Heaven and mandate it, and we can solve it any time we wanted to. I like the continuous production of LAV rumours, I'd go so far as to extend that to tanks too. Build a few dozen gun tanks and support vehicles a year with surge...

In fairness - reservists working a full time job and then going out on weekend exercises + parade nights get paid extra for that time. A reg force member working full time and doing so gets nothing extra. I feel like building RSS schedules around working with their respective units is the simple...

Polands Abrams purchases: First batch: $4.75 billion USD for 250 plus training, logistics, technical support and ammunition, M1A2 SepV3 Second Batch: $1.6 Billion for 116 M1A1s, to be upgraded later K2s: First Batch: $12.4 billion for 180 K2s, plus 212 K9s and 48 FA-50s, and the myriad other...

We probably know each other then, shoot me a PM if you want to rant together - tracking the FTIC, which is one of the best things that's happened to provide some consistent staffing. There's been more than just Kevin teaching, (heck I've been course 2IC and an instructor on a bunch). The unit...

And from my personal experiences I wouldn't trust the vast majority of non-combat arms to run the SQ, and there aren't a lot to begin with either. If we brought SQ back for combat arms in general and stripped those elements out of our DP1s we could still achieve the same goal but open the...

If we can't get troops onto DP1 because we don't have enough staff (or equipment) to run the course, then I'm not sure how we expect to run an entire additional course as a stopgap until they can get into DP1. Unless the plan is to let units sign people off on certain things locally done on...

Honestly, that's pretty reasonable. Canadian troops in Latvia deterring Russia counts as defence spending for NATO purposes for obvious reasons, Canadian (or Canadian financed) drones, ammo, AFVs, etc, directly engaging Russian forces to deter destroy Russian forces seems even more applicable...

I'll buy a lifetime supply of whatever they drink if someone in Army G1 tosses the kilts out completely and just makes everyone wear pants. I'll put their kids through college if they make all the infantry wear the same cap badge, though that one's just for shits and giggles.