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I find the term "cavalry" as meaningless as "armour" and I find the RCAC's attempt to make one fit quite different circumstances in order to simplify the training regime as inherently confusing. In my mind there are two different fights in a division - a close fight and a deep fight. Both...

I really don't disagree with some of the arguments for why "manoeuvre warfare" is dead, at least in the current situation in Ukraine (and possibly in Latvia) but I don't quite agree with the extension of that to the RCAC. Inevitably when we predict the future of warfare and point ourselves in...

My focus is on the following words: "the normies wrestling the wheel away from the favoured and moneyed political establishment." The first part deals with the use of the word "normies." which characterizes the core Trump supporters as part of the "normal" part of the US population. The fact...

I'm pleased to see it looks at both wheeled and tracked options . . . unlike the IFM RFI which stacked the odds against tracked with its 80kmh speed requirement. 🍻

Mods - If there's a better place for this please move it. From Noah 🍻

Are you listening to yourself? :unsure:

Yeah, if you want to just leave it as a generic ground based air defence then "GBAD" by itself would probably do. Just remove the FOBS stuff. Do you still have the ability to edit the title or is that a moderator job? I have to say that "FOBS" get's me thinking of forward operating bases and...

I'm starting to wonder whether you should change the title of this thread. It seems that for quite some time we have moved beyond the Chinese FOBS. We're talking mostly in the area of the army field force GBAD or even Homeland local AD, and sometime we're talking about IAMD but rarely have we...

I have every little doubt that we could develop an ad hoc procedure by which Cdn aircraft could transmit firing data to a Cdn HIMARS launcher. OTOH the development of a doctrine that would permit the functioning of such a link is probably much more difficult to develop and implement. It could...

. . . and mines 🍻

Testify! The last slide I have is from 2023 which predicted contract award in 2025 and implementation from 2025 - 2029. So yeah. Slippage. 🙁

The Joint Fires Modernization project is designed to mate a wide variety of current and future ISTAR sensors with a wide variety of current and future effectors. I can't speak for "direct" links as I expect there will be a middle C2 and targetting layer. 🍻

None of bayonets, suppressors or priests have anything to do with LRPRS. :giggle:

So much to unpack. There is a preliminary question. Will the army be required at some point to field an expeditionary division? If yes, or a high likelihood of yes, then the army will have to design such a division and its theatre support organization from scratch and, in all probability have...

I'm not sure which is worse - deicing the ~19 firing platform spade rings, or clearing the snow off what might need to be 17 tanks/tank turrets. At least with the firing platforms, Parks Canada's snow plows clean off the 400+ inch annual snowfall on a daily basis - there's just those damn spade...

The development of the CRV7 by Winnipeg's Bristol Aerospace the predecessor of DRDC and the current state of the Canadian space technology industry makes me believe that we could easily develop a broad based industry as long as government supports rather than hinders it. We need a certain scale...

Not sure if this update on the GBAD project has come to folks attention yet so . . . here it is. 🍻

They've already fired their first Australian built GMLRS and LM Australia plans on producing 4,000 per year by 2029. We've got the ability to do that as well, if we choose to. Personally, I'm interested in dual use (ship and shore) PrSMs with anti-ship capabilities. 🍻

To the best of my knowledge this will come as a stock M142 HIMARS on a standard FMTV M1140 truck frame. The M1140 has an armoured cab. This is what is included in the purchase as per the US Coop Agency press release of last Oct (note cost is in US$). Note there are no ammo resupply vehicles...