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The 2nd Iranian ship in the area, the IRINS Bushehr that docked in Sri Lanka was a Bandar Abbas-class fleet supply ship. Anyone able to say for certain that given the ongoing US military build-up leading up to the war that they didn't re-arm the IRNS Dena after the exercise completed? [edited...

Let me throw out a couple of hypotheticals in relationship to this sinking: US Sub contacts a P-8 and it re-directs from its current mission to contact the Iranian vessel with the challenge to surrender. What potential risk is there of the P-8 abandoning it's current mission? They don't...

To be fair, under JT we didn't have a serious government. While I personally never liked PP he was the logical opposition leader for the Conservatives at the time. We had a Government that had breathy no-substance policies and the opposite to that was equally non-nuanced "common sense"...

Depending how long this goes on the US might not have any Patriots to spare...

obvious correction...

I see no need to change the Cadet program. I think it's useful for general civic development in our youth as well as being military "adjacent" as a window into the CAF for those who might become interested. Diverting 16-18 year old cadets out of the program and into the Reserves would a)...

I'm again surprised to see that the Iranian Air Force is still flying. Armed YAK-130 trainers and MiG-29B reportedly conducting counter-drone patrols over Tehran https://defence-blog.com/iran-deploys-yak-130-jets-for-drone-patrols-over-tehran/

Not to speak for @FJAG but I'm guessing that by a single chassis he's more referring to the various specialty variants of a vehicle class sharing the same chassis....CV90 IFV, CV90 CP, CV90 AD, CV90 AT, CV90 Ambulance, CV90 Mortar, etc. for the sake of streamlined logistics. Not one chassis...

My time in Cadets was when there was still a more military focus and some of us older Cadets joined the occasional Reserve exercise. My understanding was that the reason the Cadets were moving away from the more military elements of their training/culture was to avoid the accusation that we...

That's the problem. I don't think anyone has figured out yet what the real implications of the Ukraine war are on modern mechanized warfare. We're stuck in a bind where the extreme choices are go lighter/faster with active protection systems, numbers and greater difficulty to detect taking the...

I don't think that the numbers we're looking at buying really make domestic production viable. If we want domestic production and maintenance facilities that make economic sense then we either need to significantly up the numbers we're buying (I could get behind that) or we need the facility...

Ahhh, but you're missing the hidden brilliance of this plan! We contract for six of each but then we Canadianize them both so extensively that we effectively end up with 12 x uniquely Canadian subs of essentially the same design! Added bonus? We're fast-tracked on our goal of reaching 5%...

With the caveat that not all "lessons" from Ukraine are actually lessons that should be followed, but with the increased so called "transparency" of the battlefield and the vastly increased number of non-LOS weapons present is it still the right approach to maximize the internal space of IFVs to...

I see what you did there (y)

FTFY with the modern update

I fear that this kind of back-peddling to try and maximize non-defence related investment guarantees and the drawn out Gripen saga could sour foreign defence contractors on doing business with Canada. Of course there are political considerations in these decisions and we should of course try to...

The US has been hitting what's left of the Iranian Air Force: https://defence-blog.com/u-s-forces-destroy-iranian-su-22-combat-aircraft/ But despite that it seems they were still able to launch a (unsuccessful) sortie...

To be fair, who could have possibly predicted instability in the Middle East...

I wonder if the fact that China has just purged a significant portion of its military leadership made the decision of the US to go ahead with the attack on Iran that much easier? I'm not sure China is in any position to take advantage of the situation.