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I'm pretty sure Glock started including adjustable back straps with their Gen 4 model to address your common complaint.

Call me skeptical, but I worry our Prime Minister will pick the one with the largest carbon offset plan.....

Without getting into OPSEC, will they evaluate each contender against most likely future opponents? So Su-57, J-20, etc.? I'm honestly very concerned we're selecting from a group of "peace dividend" designs that by the time they are adopted will be insufficient for the task. Given the...

I had never heard of O'Toole before the leadership contest. I have been pleasantly surprised so far.

The concern is that Trudeau doesn't care about that little detail. He's just looking for the most efficient way to buy votes with our own money....and more capable fighter jets is probably pretty low on that scale.

Saab really going after the economic side of the assessment.....which based on Trudeau's priorities may be a really smart move. Especially with the cost inflation in all the Naval programs.

I would have been much happier if our AOPS had been similarly armed. With the current fit, it seems much more suitable to a constabulary role with our Coast Guard.

@Cloud Cover It's funny I read that exact article....what I found interesting was not in the main body of the article, but in the comments as one of the posters ("Dogs Nads" :ROFLMAO:) made the following statement, which as not corrected by anyone else, I assume is accurate. In response to...

Just to followup on previous debate regarding if CAMM in isolation being sufficient in the role of CIWS (versus being supplemented by 35mm, 40mm, 57mm air burst gun systems), see new article on swarming air launched drones. Clarification request if not OPSEC: If you wanted to, is the space...

I was just looking for literature on the Bofors and Leonardo 40mm CIWS and found an article indicating the British have are arming each Type 31 with (1) 57mm and (2) 40mm guns per hull.  I was unaware they had made those decisions...

My neophyte understanding is that 30mm we're installing are tailored to target surface targets as opposed to air targets.  In addition although the 40mm has fewer available rounds, you should need fewer per target, and as a system it has a much deeper effective range.  Re: The 127mm being uses...

Just throwing out something I hope I haven't missed in previous pages.... What about mimicking the Private Finance Initiative that the UK is using with their Point-Class Ro-Ro's. They have six owned and operated by a private cargo company with a contract to be able to buy access within fixed...

So looking at existing design, the two 30mm guns are both mounted at the rear of the ship leaving the front arc exposed.  Assuming all are in agreement that drone swarms will constitute a threat during the life of these ships (hard to determine how rapldly that tech will advance), does it not...

So assuming something more advanced than the linked system becomes common place within the next ten years, how would you propose the CSC defend itself in contested littoral waters?  A laser is going to take up a similar foot print to the Millennium Gun would it not?  In that context would it not...

And if there are more of those small munitions than the CSC has missiles, you would contend that it would be unwise to having something like the 35mm Oerlikom Millennium Gun as an extra layer?  I don't understand that logic.

Agreed on the gun-based CIWS as a necessity as an opponent can easily send 100 small and relatively slow munitions (think IAI Harpy loitering munitions), and by force of numbers overwhelm your defensive missiles.  I hope the RCN PMO is reviewing exactly how Turkey used them in Armenia as that...

Honestly, as soon as I saw "Strike Length Cells" I and assumed it was for BMD and ASROC.  I was shocked that the actual intention was Tomahawks. Do we ever do exchanges with the Americans or Japanese so we'd know how they tactically employ ASROC if it were later to be added to the CSC quiver?

With enemy submarines about to add a SAM capability as the CSC's are entering service which would be a tremendous threat to our helicopters, does it not make sense to add a few cells of VL-ASROC?  The rationale being that it ensures opposing submarine captains know that if they try to engage our...

When the contract for the two Berlin-class were signed, does the contracting body as a rule negotiate guaranteed option pricing for follow-up vessels?  It would seem wise so if need is identified you don't have to RFP the whole thing all over again.

Nor that it's any time on the near-horizon, but could the Army start looking ahead to the Mk48 VLS,  57mm Bofors and Phalanx systems that will become available as the Halifax class are retired? With current CSC schedules there should be lots of time to look at towable options for each, if those...