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Yuck, as their SSBN fleet is also in dire straights - albeit due to missile maintenance aspects. Not just Germany -- all of NATO except the USA sat back and enjoyed a “peace dividend” and let the US shoulder the vast burden of defending the free world for quite some time. Part of the Reason...

It appears there are now no undamaged bridges to temporarily occupied Crimea today. Shucks.

That would have been a massive game changer. One can’t just not fund SSN maintenance. One wonders had that program gone ahead, what the world would look like today from a Canadian history perspective.

The Grey Eagles can operate off any flat stretch of roadway. Take Off roll of ~800m, and like the RQ-7 Shadow (at all Bde’s not just Aviation) they can land on shorter distances by using recovery nets (similar to the fouling net on a CVN). The Aviation Brigades are actually fairly nimble...

I edited my original to note: Video published by IRIB, the state broadcaster, and verified by The New York Times, showed a damaged concrete structure with a collapsed roof near the city of Kuhestak in Sirik county in Hormozgan province, on the coast of the Strait of Hormuz. IRIB said that the...

Come on - what could be better than a Winter Ex that as soon as you insert the mag - it snaps the feedlips and half go out the ejection port - the rest get stuck in a mess. The Diemaco (pre Colt Canada) had the gall to tell me how Thermold magazines where so superior to other magazines in...

I have no idea, but I am not 100% you need to have video - especially submerged, as you won’t have any usable visible light, so you are then in other spectrums. I do know that SubSurface Warfare people (both in Mil and Industry) do not like to talk about communication methods outside a SCIF...

CENCOM claims to have only struck AD and Command centers -- there doesn’t seem to be any corroboration of the allegations by the Iranian President, other than his twitter rambling (I see a Presidential trend here folks) Edit -- well it looks like the NYT has Video published by IRIB, the state...

Well I would say that you oiled the screws to make it easy to turn. Hypothetically if Canada had been at 2% in the 70’s to now (yes lets ignore recessions etc as this is just a hypothetical). 88 F-35 already flying, CF-18 donated to Ukraine 3 years ago P-8 already flying 15 River class in...

Again please point me to their Gen 5 Aircraft that they use as a starting block? I can wait :ROFLMAO: This is the reason I think GCAP’s timeline is vastly optimistic - and they have a huge head start. Look back to the Avro Arrow, as making a Gen 6 from scratch is basically the same sort...

I stand by my original statement he has some sort of stroke or mental break after he lost in 2019. 45 was fairly logical (if still annoying and boisterous) So you have faith in our Congress for this? Trump often talks to talk -- 9/10ths of what he says is just noise.

I wanted to jump back to this for a second. It worked great for FYR, and for Afghanistan and Iraq. However as @Infanteer and others have mentioned it doesn’t work for a LSCO. I used to be really enamored with the CMBG “Mini-Division” setup, but while it was good for somethings it falls...

Honestly if you don’t think we are an Ally at this junction you have larger issues.

I meant more Combat -- the AJAX was designed to get the armor on operations, with the theory that the armor wasn’t needed in training. Also having an eye to some method of future proofing, but also being willing to say this is no longer a modern front line system - and is handed off to less...

Distrust and Verify ;) AI is a useful tool, but it doesn’t know what it doesn’t know.

If you look at the issue of Gripen v F-35, or Gripen and F-35 from the lens of what is best for Canada, I would say that is entirely different from throwing a bunch of politics into it. Yes Politics affects some criteria - but I will say as someone living down here, since PM MC’s budget there...

I’m guessing the UK MoD would prefer to go back in time and adopt the CV-90 instead, or continue the Warrior upgrade. AJAX isn’t an ASCOD, the vehicle are dramatically different other than external aspects - and while GDUK may have used the ASCOD as the baseline it appears to have drifted...

I am actually sure we don’t. Ballistic missiles yes. But the smaller stuff, you can built it pretty much anywhere, including the basement of a home.

Outside of contested airspace. One needs more UAS to make up for losses than most forecast, as well as Satellite and Very High Altitude options. No ;) Many large firms have several options and methods for their or others UUV systems.

Years ago Drake Clark from Magpul sent me a tri-wall of PMAG’s to test as he knew my thoughts at the time on polymer mags due to the Thermold debacle. I took 100 to Iraq, the rest got given away to CAF serials training at MidSouth and BlackWater. Honestly the PMAG is by far the best...