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I have a sneaky suspicion that the Armoured Corps will try and sequester a small number (squadron's worth) of CCVs for a 'heavy' Recce element in an armoured battlegroup the case Canada finds itself in a shooting war with a heavily armed/armoured adversary where higher levels of protection...

Iranian Tosan Anti-Tank variant. 

*ding ding* We have a winner! Some key recognition features that may have been useful: 1.  Large Turkish flag banners hung from the building in the background 2.  5 road wheels on the vehicle 3.  Bow mounted machine gun on the right hand side of the glacis plate This would indicate it is...

I am wondering whether or not the Armoured Corps is strategically trying to f*ck themselves time and time again in terms of vehicle procurement; Rewind several years ago when they essentially sold out on the concept of MBTs in favour of the MGS, which turns out to be extremely short sighted. ...

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Vehicle on the bottom right corner of the photo.  What is it?  *edited to flip the photo correctly; original was reversed left to right*

OTO Melara OF-40 Design based on the Leopard 1, but modified in several areas and marketed as an export tank.  In service with the UAE.

Looks like the TAPV is likely to be armed with a CASW equipped remote weapon station: http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/defencewatch/default.aspx Delays in the CASW procurement are likely to in turn delay acquisition of TAPV until it can be announced what the winning CASW...

Negative.  The official party line from DND is that this equipment is being procured for a load carriage study which will be taken place in the Afghanistan theatre of operations, whereby they wanted to purchase commercial off the shelf stuff for expedited delivery (rather than have to wait for...

The New York Times reporter CJ Chivers has been writing a series of articles regarding Taliban and Afghan government forces marksmanship.  Not much of it is suprising, given the statistics on casualties as a result of enemy rifle fire, but what is interesting is that Taliban fighters are using...

TAPV dedicated thread http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/87547.0.html Mods, maybe this topic should be locked, or merged into the thread above.

A problem that seems to be occuring with nano technology in such applications is that over time, as the nano fibers break down, the particles become airborne, and can become inhaled into the lungs.  The end result is very similar to asbestos particles creating scar tissue and the ensuing...

Soldiersystems.net has posted up that the US Army is about to issue formal guidance giving the go-ahead for troops in operational areas to paint their rifles and carbines so as to aid in camouflage and concealment. http://soldiersystems.net/2010/04/05/army-to-allow-soldiers-to-paint-weapons/ I...

DLR-5 Source?

Congratulations to MGen PJ Devlin who will become the next Chief of Land Staff for the Canadian Army.  Best wishes and congratulations on a job well done to LGen Leslie; His legacy is that of an Army which has performed admirably on the field of battle during his tenure as CLS, and the lessons...

That's like telling somebody to blouse their trousers over mukluks, or the rubber overboot (boot, rubber, gumby)  ::)

Hi Albert, CPGear sells OD webbing in its raw materials section: http://www.cpgear.com/StoreBox/raw_materials.htm We can also sell you yardage of OD 1000 denier Cordura.  Email me @ [email protected] for a pricing quote on the material. Cheers, Matt

You do realize that article is dated back to 2005?