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Short course, and short time in sniper billets. The US Army is a throughput machine. You don’t end up with a lot of SME’s in ‘doing ranks’. There have been a lot of discussions on changing this, but there is an unwillingness to even add more Warrants Officers into certain training...

JFC, the amount of time it takes to train a capable long range shooter is not what most armies invest in their snipers let alone a DMR. Commonwealth Army Snipers spend long enough in positions (usually) to be able to effectively use the .338LM rifles they have, however most also have .50BMG...

I think that is a wishful thinking pipe dream. All those who believe that are looking at Ukraine and Russia in a vacuum. 1) Neither side has an reliable degree of Air Superiority, let alone Air Supremacy. 2) It entirely ignores the damage that Artillery (both tube and rocket) have done on...

Also conducted mass human wave attacks at the Iraqis, that the Red Chinese would have been impressed with. Iraq moved to chemical weapons when they could not stop the Iranian waves with conventional firepower. There were some fantastic interviews with Iraqi soldiers in Macleans and Time...

You are assuming it told you the truth. ChatGPT and many other AI bots are programmed to tell the user what they want to hear. Distrust, and verify.

AI/ML already does everything in some systems with either weapon release human authority or override. We will make the machines that kill us…

Who then has enough artillery and maneuver units to exploit that advantage.

Still wish the CA could break away from the wheeled fetish.

Honestly if the Canada had Bradley, then go Bradley A4 with the Hellfire and Javelin modifications done to it, I would say up-gun the cannon to 30-35mm and call it a day. But Canada does not - so there is a clean sheet of paper, which I honestly think is a good thing (as long as it doesn't...

While humorous at the face, it acts as the harbinger for larger issues. Petrochemical volumes have already spiked Fertilizer, and Fuel prices (and availability). There is no easy painless solution, as Iran isn't going to take it's boot off the Straits (I mean from their perspective why...

@daftandbarmy already mentioned this, but I really hope that ACV-W is not planned for Infantry Line Companies. While I like ATGM's on IFV's - they really do need to be F&F setups - furthermore any vehicle that is taking troops into proximity of enemy defenses needs to have a cannon (and C-UAS...

The MLC80 is a specification under STANAG 2021. It isn’t just curb weight, though for tracks that is 72.6t, there is also minimum/maximum dimension requirements for structures and vehicles. Axle loads for wheeled vehicles etc. It also has spacing and speeds (25mph/40km is the common bridge...

Because some of those tasks require actual mass. Dozing, Plowing, and schlepping the MICLIC system all require a fair amount of weight and horsepower.

M1A2 Sep3 and 4 are out, but the M1E3/A3 is below MLC80. M10 Booker and GDLS’s XM-30 MICV contender: Same chassis, same suspension, different engine layout - but same power plant and transmission, same digital architecture. M1 series have same suspension pieces, but more, but drastically...

Not if you have ~150 bodies from 4 Mech Inf BN as well, some from other arms units as well Let’s say there is at least 1.5k RegF positions. At a 10% intake that is 150 students a year plus PRes. Honestly I wouldn’t have it under the RCAC or the RCIC, but its own RCCavC. Created from a...

I strongly suspect that the Infantry Corps will insert themselves into a IFV variant if only for 2-3 BN. Assault Troop wasn’t like a true Mech Inf entity, it was more a close support, local security, mud Recce, Pioneer type entity. Frankly I’ve come to the belief that Canada needs to create...

Yes. I probably should have mentioned that option. The US Army notoriously only buys US designed Armored Vehicles, so I tend to doubt that it will be selected. BAE snuck in the tent as they bought the armored vehicle portion of FMC, and so inherited the 113 and Bradley - and the staff and...

I had thought from previous discussions the numbers for MCAV was ~500 and HDFM ~250 no? Gunners moved H Hour ahead without telling anyone again :ROFLMAO: HDFM has some pretty specific attachment modules. I do not see the HDFM being the same platform as MCAV, short of a Merkava/Namer...

Can't be proven to be broken down if you tow them, they may have just been saving fuel y'know :ROFLMAO:

Well with all the kit that appears to be on order - the PRes is going to look like CMBG's - probably better equipped than the CA RegF CMBG's have been to date.