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I don't know if MAN has also been taken over by Stery/S&S, but the MAN trucks are completely different. 

Is the French CAESAR not the best option if you are insistant on a 155mm gun?  The French are using it for their rapid reaction forces, they are proposing it to the US Army for their Stryker Brigades, to the USMC and to the British for their Light Mobile Artillery Weapons System which will equip...

Since this got moved to a post of its own, future readers may not see the whole idea.  The CSR was part of a new CMBG.  The original discussion was moving the combined arms concept down to the battle group level on a permanent basis.  The direct fire support squadron, close support artillery...

MCG, To allow the battle groups to keep their own engineer squadrons but not lose the capabilities you are talking about what do you think of grouping the traditional engineer support squadron into a Combat Support Regiment under brigade control and leaving the field squadrons in the battle...

MCG, I actually remembered your point as soon as I had posted, but it was too late to change it.  You have corrected me so many times on the CER issue it actually stuck with me.  I would use three field engineer squadrons each with two field/assault engineer troops and a light support troop...

I completely agree with permanently organized combined arms battle groups.  I have read and discussed this on previous topics.  My question is how do you go about this while at the same time preserve the regimental system?  The regimental system is a part of our national and military history and...

I didn't actually mean the Ferret and the Fennek were the same.  I was meaning that the Fennek is the modern day equivalent.  Both are small 4x4, light armoured cars with a 2-3 member crews mounting medium to heavy machine guns or grenade launchers and both are used for reconnaissance and...

Note the similarities between the old Ferret and the new German/Dutch Fennek.  The Fennek may be the Ferret of the 21st Century. 

Thanks Kirkhill.  If you look at the Multi-role Light Vehicle on the same site, it is basically and armoured LUVW-style vehicle based on a soft-skin model.  The British have purchased it for recce, liaison, RRB, FOO, engineer troop leaders, and a few more tasks.  It has a Protected Weapons...

What about a variant of the German Light Infantry Vehicle (Special Operations) for a recce vehicle.  Its basically the same as the British Landrover Defence 'Wolf'.

I found another vehicle that appears to be pretty good.  The Alvis Scarab.  It looks similar to the Fennek.  It lost out to the Panther MLV in the British Army's Future Command & Liaison Vehicle Project.  But the Belgians were looking at it too.  It uses Mercedez engines and components and it is...

The Americans have them organized into two balanced fire teams.  A team leader, rifleman/anti-armour specialist, grenadier and a light machine gunner.  But the section commander could easily mix and match this for a specific need.  And the Americans obviously don't have a Carl Gustav.  One...

How about the British Command & Liaison Vehicle fitted with a surveillance suite like the German/Dutch Fennek.  Or just the Fennek for that matter. www.army-technology.com

I would have all the direct fire support assets crewed by armoured soldiers.  This would be the LAV-III DFSV (25mm), LAV-III MGS and LAV-III TUA.  This would be the same as how the artillery soldiers are now crewing the mortars.

On the topic of the make up of the platoon and section, how about something similar to the US Army's Stryker infantry platoons: The platoon would have the Canadianized LAV-III Stryker.  Meaning a LAV-III with a Protected Weapons Station instead of the Delco 25mm turret.  Two vehicles would have...

If they are insistant on moving the TUA to the armoured corps I think it would make more sense to spread them out.  Each of the three armoured regiments could be composite organizations.  Each armoured regiment would have the following: 1 or 2 Reconnaissance & Surveillance Squadrons - SHQ with...

I agree, give the LAV-III MGSs to the infantry and let them be the combined arms manoeuvre battalions.  Let the RCAC become more traditional cavalry; reconnaissance and surveillance.  Take the organization of the present armoured reconnaissance regiments (RCD & 12 RBC) and just expand on it by...

I wasn't actually suggesting a helicopter was the same as a car, just trying to make a point, sarcastically I guess.  I never said that the EH-101 was the best helicopter for the job, I just suggested it would have made more sense to have one helicopter for both SAR and MH considering a MH. ...

Sheerin, I thought Marine-1 was still a Sea King as well.  But according to several US military sites they are also using a Blackhawk for the role.  However, they are looking for a replacement at a any rate.  Right now it is a competition between the S-92 SuperHawk and the US-101 (US...

Inch, I fully admit I have no experience.  Just a very interested outsider.  I'm just throwing around some ideas for discussion.  I'm not trying to say they will work. With regards to the readiness: I wasn't suggesting they be at a high-state of readiness 12 out of 18 months.  I was using the...