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Best thing about it is this: the best ISTAR asset the light battalions have right now is the DFS platoon (which have been inviting over a lot of Aussie and British DFS instructors to observe the courseware and doctrine in Gagetown).

Funnily enough yes; it's also what they were pushing for originally in DLR-5 back when Multicam was a contender because they were looking at a system that would allow units to purchase COTS solutions should there be shortfalls / delays or failure to meet demand. But something something...

Oh I agree, but treated camouflage material vs a solid tunic present themselves quite differently under I2.

Something to be said about glowing under Gen 3 I2 and FLIR.

The new pattern has been selected, they even have it printed out in quantities enough for uniforms, bush caps and rain gear. However, they don't want to have individual pers in mixed patterns (lol) because they haven't sorted out PPE / LCE (to include rucksack, daybag, tac vest) which isn't due...

I'm partial to how the Brits juggled their sharpshooter rifle and UGLs opposed to how they say it's done doctrinally. IC w/ the sharpshooter rifle allowing for greater PID/visual SA at distance without having to go to binos, and still allows them to assault. 2IC w/ a UGL (or stand-alone in the...

ATGM-R is the name of the project to replace our previous ATGM (eryx?) and potentially the TOWs (which honestly I think we should keep since there are very few systems that can stop a TOW II from killing a tank) since it may expand to vehicle born ATGMs, but the main effort for it is a...

Both Hereford and Poole have bumped those numbers up (along with their international equivalents), 4-man dets / patrols went away long ago once FIBUA became a mainstay operating environment and a required increase in the number of specialist qualifications within each det / patrol; the...

The KAC LAMG/AMG is an interesting solution if we're still hell bent on having an assaulting belt fed weapon in a section at half the weight.

The Dagor (and it's smaller MRZR cousin) is plagued with issues in actual execution and logistics, a lot of highly spec'd Toyotas are the actual ULCV for the command or they continue to use the armoured GMVs. 3RCR and the DFS cell in CTC have written up some decent literature on what kind of...

I don't disagree, there are some arguments that the dedicated dismounted forces may have some slightly different requirements than than those who aren't; but I'm not airborne enough to understand that line of reasoning.

We're painfully slow and adverse to change.

To some extent yes, by which if any of the small scale procurements made under DICE get made into larger scale acquisitions under SOCEM. Otherwise, maybe only Recce and snipes within the Mech Bns (albeit they already have their own equipment program). Really the only different kit under DICE is...

CADPAT MT will begin issuing out in 4 Div sometime later this year starting with combats, rain gear and bush caps (which would go to 2CMBG lines first); but Ontario is a weird place and I wouldn't be surprised to see just COs and RSMs with it and us regular folk still in faded combats until next...

Was referring to where on ACIMS, but if it isn't there it doesn't matter. I wonder which capbadge will end up owning the LIB, or are they just going to bring up a new one.

Where was this posted under? A near full strength light infantry battalion with all the dedicated CS and CSS enablers it would require would follow with what I've been hearing out of Gagetown with the DICE program and some of the new LF doctrine that will be formally updated/introduced in the BG-Ls.

The PRC-163s are plagued with issues from what I hear; hell an 18E I know is doing all he can to hold onto their MBITRs and 152s. Funny considering since USASOC went with 163s, and the US Army is going with IMBITRs (which are Type 1 TSM capable btw). Plus, we're odd about purchasing new shiny...

Don't even have to be new, just need to have them, and actually train people on them before a pre-deployment work-up. I'd kill for a handful of MBITRs (or IMBITRs if we're going for future-proof) with long whip multi-band antennas from Shakespeare.

That's easy the division training centres will take them, or they're tucked in MSA somewhere never to be seen. I was on a reserve PLQ / ISSC where 95% of the course had never used MNVGs on let alone a PEQ-2 or PAQ-4 (the latter two we didn't even have on the course). Rant on: Hell, we didn't...

WP is pretty widespread now (even amongst the white side of SOCOM): Australian Army runs PVS-31As complete for all combat arm units and their direct support (to include their reserves); the French, the Germans and the UK are phasing in WP dual tube systems for combat arms (Elbit based for the...