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HMS Endurance, an 'ice patrol vessel', armed with 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons and 2 x Lynx helicopters was the only Royal Navy vessel in the South Atlantic when the Argentines invaded the Falklands. Perhaps things would have gone a little differently if she had been better armed...

Well, according to Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-162_ESSM And the ESSM isn't going anywhere. They are currently working on an upgraded version. http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=916139

My bad. I meant the person who asked the question, whiskey601, not you.

Janes is overrated and often wrong.  In many cases Wikipedia is a better source as it will give links to references. Additionally, Wikipedia is better in this case as Wikipedia has links to the respective guidance methods for the missiles. This way the op can learn how the missiles work.

You're confused. Check Wikipedia. The harpoon wasn't used against land targets during combat ever. And while the sm2 and essm can physically hit land, they can't effectively be used to engage landbased targets.

North Korea has had a long military relationship with Syria. It seems likely that some North Korean soldiers are there. The real question is how many and in what capacity.

A jamming aircraft is cool, but I would rather see some dedicated sigint aircraft. Most of the 'professional' militaries have some. We should as well.

* I'm pretty sure that a Komar missile boat got the first missile kill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komar-class_missile_boat And PNS Khaibar was sunk by P-15s launched from Indian Vidyut-class (Osa) missile boats in 1971...

And here I though that the point of defence procurement was to fulfill a defence necessity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases

Blue water is open ocean                              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-water_navy Green water is littoral                                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-water_navy Brown water is riverine                                 ...

yes, mine too. We all know that statistics can be misleading.  One explanation that wikipedia gives is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Japan

That is true, but the two of these people were arrested in Japan. Japan's legal system seems to be very different than Canada's. A quick google search of "presumption of innocence" brings up many interesting sites and stories. For example: This article claims that there are many false...

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So capt jack lawson is an ACSO. What rank and trade is Ian Greenwood? https://www.facebook.com/rcaf1924/posts/10153185651226237:0

I think you just described what a support trade is. Operational generally refers to the people on the pointy end of things like combat arms soldiers and aircrew. Mechanics, technicians, cooks and clerks are generally considered support. This is because that support enables the pointy end people...

they were 'mock' dogfights. No one was shooting. From what I have read this occurs fairly often.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-erdogan-hitler-idUSKBN0UF1T820160101 Probably taken out of context, but interesting none the less

The National Post is reporting that Montreal has hired an official co-ordinator to welcome the Syrian refugees to Montreal. He will be paid up to $110,000 for the three month period.  Not a bad job...

http://theaviationist.com/2015/11/24/ruaf-su-24-shot-down-by-turkey/ This is the Turkish version. In the Russian version the SU-24s flew around Syria. Red is Russian SU-24s and blue is turkish F-16s. The story is that the two SU-24s flew across a couple miles of Syria (17 seconds) and one of...