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It is very interesting how similar the ideas of a_majoor are to some of my amateurish musings(I have no membership connection to CAF). After a lot of reading on this and other boards/blogs I think that the LAV III vehicles could be made more effective by rearming some of them with a variety of...

I agree with the comments that building a railway on permafrost has great challenges---there is a 1100Km railway in Tibet on permfrost that has some problems, the Canadian Arctic Railway proposal(to Fairbanks, Alaska) has looked at the problem, we also have the Murmansk railway in Russia, the...

In reply to R933ex, The problem with the bridge over the Mackenzie is exactly what I had in mind when I said some of these problems are 30 years or more in age.  As you well know, the cost of living in the north is very high, particularly in winter.....a decent rail system would reduce that...

I think placing a civilian/military deep-water port in the Arctic is a fine idea but is it cost-effective given the distribution of population in the Arctic? Right now the only place that really needs a port is Iqaliut.  From a military point of view, probably the most strategic location of a...

Thanks Colin P for your input----I was a bit shocked after my post when I saw how thirsty the LCAC are.  Can you provide an approximate figure for fuel consumption for the AP1-88 used by CCG?  The reason that I am attracted to hovercraft is that they could be used when the ocean is completely...

I agree with the spirit of Colin P's suggestion about the small patrol boats for the Arctic.  My suggestion would be to consider 3 to 6 hovercraft based on the LCAC-----perhaps with enlarged fuel capacity for much greater range and armed with the MLG 27 light naval gun system.  The crew would be...