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My concern is not with the Americans but our own "Canadian" lobbyists. And the concern is not with where the money goes but on what the money is being spent. The 20 year plans for fighters and ships and subs aren't my biggest concern. It is the 2 to 5 year plans for small arms, UxVs, GBAD...

https://defence-blog.com/us-restarts-production-of-armored-vehicle-to-send-65-to-ukraine/?amp The original "TAPV" is now back in production for Ukraine. .... The one thing where I think the TAPV, and the Patria CAV, has an advantage over the LAV II is the position of the driver and VC. The...

If we are talking about taking up civilian vessels from trade....you don't need to use the cabins just because you have them.

Patria CAVS 6x6 is C130 deployable. As is the LAV II.

Coming soon ... Photon Torpedoes.

https://breakingdefense.com/2026/06/mbda-showcases-hybrid-high-energy-laser-interceptor-counter-drone-system/ A pallet with a 50 kW laser and 24 5 km missiles. Both the laser and the missiles were originally offered as adjuncts to the Skyranger cannon turrets. Apparently they can produce...

Agreed, even in Ukraine some positions are within a grenade toss of each other. On the other hand some places the OPs are 5 km apart and the FPV zone on either side of that 5 km is another 15 to 20 km making for a contested zone inhabited by pickets that is up to 50 km deep. Gun lines lie...

Are you sure about the 101st Kev? One way of looking at te 101st is that it, like the 82nd, is just another light infantry division, complete with ISVs, but with an extra ration of helicopters. I believe all divisions, light and heavy, have an aviation brigade. The 101st appear to have...

Go the European route. Maersk, DFDS and Stena, among others, have contracts to move military goods on priority. They are subsidised to keep surplus capacity on their standing routes so that they can handle exercises without disrupting their commercial service. We coul do the same with Marine...

Battle Group, Brigade Group, Division, Corps or Army, there always seems to be more space than troops. There are always open flanks and there is always the risk of envelopments. Even with the great conscript armies it was not uncommon for whole armies to be encircled and scooped. Guerilla...

Battle Group, Brigade Group, Division, Corps or Army, there always seems to be more space than troops. There are always open flanks and there is always the risk of envelopments. Even with the great conscript armies it was not uncommon for whole armies to be encircled and scooped. Guerilla...

One thing I have been struggling with is the location of the FLOT and the contested zone. Is the FLOT at the edge of the contested zone, as shown, or in the middle? Are the two FLOTs, or FLOT/FLET, 10 to 20 km apart or does the contested zone extend 10 to 20 km to the rear of the FLOTs? And...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b310a10244bdf673 I can't figure out whether it was a sick joke or a deliberate ploy to make Britain unattractive to refugees by placing furriners into nationalist and orange neighbourhoods.

Other losses: Labour MP of Bedfordshire, Rachel Hopkins, Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Ministry of Defence stood down from her office but kept her seat. Labour MP of Scotland, Pamela Nash, Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Healey, also stood down in solidarity...

Turn all three RCAC regiments into Combined Arms units in the heavy brigade. I am sure you are right about the lack of difference between a dismounted grenadier and a light trooper. But you gain unit cohesion. And there should be nothing to stop a fed up rifleman deciding to move from...

All the more reason to turn all the tracks over to the RCAC, along with their panzergrenadiers.

Latvia - 250 km by 450 km - 64,000 km2 Hunter road speed of 70 kmh 3.5 hrs North South 6.5 hrs East West Latvia buying Patria CAVS 6x6 (>200 WAPC and 59 WC2 Vehicles) https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/landwarfareintl/latvia-orders-more-patria-6x6-vehicles/ .... Lithuania buying Patria...

I come back to this comment by retired RTR commander Hamish de Bretton-Gordon "Vehicles must act as command centres in a wider digital combat system, controlling drones that enhance their lethality and survivability" It sounds to me as if the priority for any vehicle operating on FEBA is a...

In the meantime, at least they have functional APCs that they didn't have before.

Meanwhile GDELS has delivered Latvia's first ASCOD variant - the Hunter IFV "Latvia ordered 84 HUNTER infantry fighting vehicles in two batches of 42, the first contracted in January 2025 and the second in June 2025."...