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I never recommended buying Apaches as the solution to the CF-wide personnel shortage. In fact, I never recommended buying them at all. I was just saying that if the CF decides that flying Apaches is an operational priority (and some people seem to think it should be), then there are more than...

From the Griffon fleet. - Chinooks will allow us to reduce airframe (and crew, and tech) numbers, without losing lift capacity - Apaches would take the surveillance workload - Apaches will replace Griffons that will need to be dedicated to the Chinook escort role -One Apache in theatre is...

Which was supposed to get burned off by the pitot heat, but... I hope that lots of people got lots of educational value out of that $1.4 Billion absolutely priceless and irreplaceable column of smoke.

Wikipedia says the Armee de Terre has 134,000 regular soldiers, 15,500 reservists, and 25,750 civilians. I think they might mean 50,000 'combat arms' soldiers, or whatever the French equivalent is.

So the marines show up and conquer southern Afghanistan, which is great, but is ISAF/ANA/ANP going to be able to actually HOLD and PROTECT any more territory than it does now? I know I'm well outside my lane here, but I'm just worried that this "clear, hold, build" operation is going to end up...

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Batman and Robin First scene: Batman (played by *snicker* George Clooney) and Robin are forced to do battle against Mr Freeze's gang of ice-skating eskimos in a frozen museum. After getting beaten up for a while, they simultaneously remember that they both have skates built into their boots...

Function over Form

I would guess he's likely a media type himself, part of the not-so-M-SM.

recceguy, I appreciate where you're coming from, but I have to differ on several of your points. Since when does a poster have to be present at an event to post someone else's article about it? If you have reason to disagree with some of the facts presented in the article, or just think the...

Modern carriers can be far more than just mobile airfields. They are amphibious assault ships, command and control centres, strategic sea-lift vessels, logistics depots, mobile hospitals, sensor platforms, and sometimes even armed surface combatants in their own right. Not to mention they are...

Well, if "responsible behaviour ... and more emphasis on reporting $hit that really matters" could sell soap, and cars, and Viagra, then that's exactly what you'd see. News outlets exist for one reason and one reason only... return on investment for their share-holders. If that means...

If you're going somewhere that's properly cold, it's probably best just to get it all over with at once... jump in with both feet and get it over with. 

Gasoline was the best they could come up with? Seriously?

Nothing more expensive than losing a war.

Danish Army Fennecs: If only we could convince the Taliban to fight somewhere with a lower density altitude... FLIR and rocket pods anyone? But as long as we're on the topic of utilizing what you own, there's always the elephant in the room: Yes, those are rocket pods. And an optical...

I'm trying to think of a 40 mm aircraft mounted cannon on any coalition a/c in Iraq, and the only thing I can come up with is the AC-130. Which is not going to drop a bomb on anybody. There might be some chopper-mounted 40 mm, but again... Anybody?

They sent... the opposition... defence critic... on a military campaign... ? And he is later described as a 'brave and audacious commander of scouts'  ??? This is just way too far from my frame of reference, I'm not sure how to deal with this.

That's what the Russians have called a lot of their larger aviation vessels.

Yes, but it could be that the LHC will produce a greater number of such events over it's lifetime (possibly within a small fraction of it's lifetime) than has happened naturally in the history of the Earth. It can reproduce energetic conditions at a scale that has not existed in our neck of the...