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It's a good question and the answer is hard for folks on the outside and also the inside to understand. "Universality of service," which includes the ability to be deployed anywhere at any time, is the gold standard. Especially in a small force like Canada's. That said, there are positions...

I wish. We've got a wheels fetish up here. OTOH, if the Koreans make the industrial side of it very tempting then the government might just lean that way. IMHO, if you are a "northern" power and intend to swing your military influence towards "northern" theatre of operation, then get a gun that...

IMHO, it is sustainable at scale for AVCON. My guess, based on the letter from the CDS, is that the arty and army have already decided that it is not and that it would be a distraction. Fair enough. They have a lot on their plate. A mortar would be impractical unless it has a direct fire...

Parts are an issue since the C3 conversion because of IP complications resulting from the bankruptcy of the Dutch company that did the conversions. This includes the recoil system. You are right - it's a basically simple system and anyone who can do M777s could grasp the skills in a few days...

The big word is - priorities. The army is the living embodiment of the squeaky wheel getting the grease. As things drop down on the priority list ever smaller resources are allocated to it. M109s and ADATS are the prime examples of the last quarter century. The RCAS isn't responsible for life...

I did two tours of AVCON as a brand new subbie and there isn't a better job to teach leadership to a young officer then sending them up into the mountains on their own with a gun detachment. It gives you everything - equipment maintenance, personnel problems, maintenance of morale during slack...

Here's the thing. Canada and its provinces have had fairly broad human rights legislation for many, many decades now. It sets a high bar for what has to be tolerated by society in general and governments and employers in particular. There is a strict standard of what duty every agency has to...

@dapaterson Just surfing Facebook and in the 3 RCHA thread there is a letter shown which is purportedly from the CDS to the President and CEO of Parks Canada dated 19 Nov 2025 advising him that the CAF would not be renewing its MOU (in its current form) for Op Palaci Avcon support when the...

Based on the videos alone, I'm a great fan of Ripsaw - especially the tracked one. Why they haven't made it big time yet is beyond me. 🍻

Having spent my years in fully equipped regiments I sometimes find it hard to imagine how things went on over the last 20 years. I have a ton of respect - especially for the Snr NCOs - who held it all together and kept the corporate knowledge alive. 🍻

Yeah. Thought so. Back in 2004 when the M109s were shitcanned and we were left with nothing but LG1s and C3s, the artillery's full fleet of tracked vehicles (M577s, M113s, M548s and M578s) were also withdrawn. That of course left the entire branch without any command post vehicles, ammo limbers...

The model railroad solution for stability of a car is to add metal weights close to the rails - usually a slab that is hidden within the carriage frame. It pulls the cars down onto the rails. My guess is added weight secured along the line of the keel should compensate for a heavy superstructure...

I've never heard anything like that. It's already a very high vehicle. Can't see how you would add an MLRS module onto it without having it tip over in a strong breeze. It does have enough capacity to make a decent OPV or STA platform with the right add on stations, but that makes them stand...

M577s? :unsure:

Sorry. Mea culpa. I think they would make great AD vehicles. They are mine protected, have a level of armour and enough internal space that they could support the crew, equipment and ammunition storage for either a gun or cheap missile/rocket air defence system that could accompany LAV-based...

Deliveries of TAPVs ran from 2016 to 2018. They are babies in the armies inventory compared to just about every other vehicle. "Clapped out" is very subjective and VOR is also very dependent on the maintenance cycles they go through. I don't think any of these vehicles are beyond use. If they...

Boy Oh Boy. Talk about "inflection point." We're looking at two key issues here - close support and deep fires. The SPs are clearly close support and the rockets deep fires. Anyone who thinks that the close support systems - whether K9 or RCH on LAV 10x10 - will be used up North is smoking...

Upgun or repurpose? I've we want to make a recce/surveillance vehicle out of them with better armament - then bad idea. OTOH, if we want to turn them into something like armoured anti-air systems of various types - then why not. We have almost 500 armoured vehicles with lots of service life...

By the time the ballroom is done, the WH correspondents' association will be much smaller. :giggle: