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I'm sworn in on the 28th, Aug 17th BMQ, and I'm headed out west with the PPCLI.

Instructions for the CF-approved method of making coffee - highly classified, but essential should you ever get a posting at NDHQ.

I'm going old school. Jane's Fighters Anthology and Longbow 2.

I have a couple of questions I haven't seen answered here yet, though I'll admit I stopped reading at about page 30. Forgive me if flog the poor horse a couple more times... First, I've read and heard various, possibly apocryphal stories about what actually happens when a 5.56 round impacts on...

This is the one thing I never know what to think about when I ponder the Afghan mission. Not having been there (yet, that is) I have no first hand experience to draw on. Everything I know about the history of conflict in Afghanistan tells me that they despise foreign interference, yet every...

Given how much Israel depends on US exports to sustain their military, nevermind that little incident in 1973, I think you could make a pretty persuasive case to Israel to keep F-22s in-house. The IAF is their biggest advantage over their aggressive neighbours, they would have to be fools to...

Indeed. Same reason I can't believe the Palestinians keep demanding the Israelis give back Jerusalem...what exactly do they think their bargaining chips are?..

To boil an extremely complex situation down to a couple lines, I simply don't believe the majority of Afghans are ready to exchange their way of life for a western-style democracy. Everyone on this board is quite aware of the intolerable situation many Afghans, women especially, live and die...

My father (RCD) recounts with particular fondness his relationship with a CPO who somehow got posted to a logistics position in the Army. His buddy, another officer, would say when confronted with a problem "This is beyond our abilities as officers to solve. Let's go see the Chief!" *picture...

Busy with RRI, some systems and weapons tests in preparation for her FELEX refit as my understanding goes - which is exactly what I was inferring before. I don't know the commander, she may well be a highly capable and qualified officer (and since she has reached the rank of Commander at all...

My thoughts exactly. To hell with footballers, we want the spice girls!

I doubt that, but I also doubt these recommendations were made with any expectations that they'd be met. Most likely they'll be used to make a later demand or concession seem quite reasonable by comparison, like when they ask the Brits to send a carrier to a hypothetical EU task force or...

The Upholder class was a bad compromise. There were studies done on the feasibility of Canada buying and operating Nuclear subs back in the 80s, the rationale of course being the ability to patrol the ice cap. Diesel-Electric subs can do it to some extent but since they combust oxygen to run...

Anyone who is willing to argue semantic differences of this nature is not a suitable person to ask for enlightenment my friend, their only reason for existence is to be right to the exclusion of all others. Every western Navy has some equivalent to goalkeeper or phalanx that performs the same...

It would be surprising if the British government didn't take a particular interest in this wreck and ensure it is handled respectfully, given that we are talking about an HMS Victory. It's successor was, after all, Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar (it's since been restored and is the current...

You're making the assumption that my ego or education depends on the opinions of people I don't know except over the internet. Hint: they don't. If you don't value my contribution, then don't. I promise not to lose too much sleep over it. I was wrong in thinking goalkeeper and phalanx were...

I read the other day there is a possibility that the JHF will be decommissioned before the UK has even started purchasing serious quantities of JSFs and may in fact be left without a fixed wing fleet air arm for several years. Given that the first new QE class carrier isn't scheduled to be...

That, or it was enough of a semantic argument that I didn't bother replying? 20mm vs 30mm, almost identical purpose and capabilities. I have an education to attend to, I don't feel the need to respond to every thread I've posted in rightly or wrongly - see below.

Same thing. Goalkeeper is just the British, and frankly far more descriptive, name

6 inch? That's the same 4.5 inch they've had mounted on every destroyer since 1938, only they lengthened the barrel to 55 calibres. As already mentioned they're currently trying to "Navalize" a version of their 155 for ships to simplify their logistics, since the ammo is already available in...