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Money!!! Change our armaments model from simply buying things to an arsenal structure where we design and build. Drones are weapons. We need to manufacture all of our own armaments. 🍻

While I applaud any decision to buy drones, for the life of me, I can't figure out how we haven't thrown money at someone here in Canada to create a complete domestic line of drones and cUAV drones. If we see the need to innovate then we better have the domestic capability to do it. 🍻

I've resigned myself to live with anything. The RFI broadly hinted that the army is looking for a wheeled solution. IMHO, the K9 is a better way to go but if it has to be wheeled I'd prefer one that was mostly built and maintained here in Canada. My biggest objection to the RCH in the past was...

There's no question in my mind that we need to grow logistics in a big way. 🍻

Cost - definitely. The argument was that the CF 100s and the Bomarc were enough so why spend money. Shortly after we bought the CF-104 as an interceptor (with guns and rockets and missiles) and then the CF-101 with nuclear missiles. So there's that. 🍻

Yes. And frequently with better programming than CBC even though it was a CBC affiliate, if I recall correctly. I remember it played some great older (1930s and 1940s) pirate movies from time to time. I'm trying to remember if it also played the Gray Ghost series (which was a CBS production) It...

I wonder if the message is getting through up top that our meagre plan for just two air defence regiments - with only a minor role for reservists - is just pathetic. 🙁

No but maybe fire warning shots and more to a PLA "coast guard" vessel ramming one of ours in the way that is becoming typical in the Philippine Sea. 🚢

The only time that I heard CFRB was when I dialled my transistor radio from CKEY (580 as it then was) to CHUM (1050) and paused for a second on CFRB at 1010. I was a slave to Classic Gold Rock (when it wasn't classic yet but brand new). I still am. My Sirius channel is permanently set to "'60s...

Yup. Aluminum welding was an issue. The same is true for the welding of the titanium parts of the M777. I've seen several arguments about the usefulness of aluminum. The fact that it was thicker than steel at a lower weight but the same ballistic protection also meant that panels were more...

Not every vehicle needs superior ballistic protection. The aluminum-based M113 was designed as a battlefield taxi with a need to protect against 122mm and 152mm slinters and small arms fire. Same with the M109. Tanks, and subsequently Bradleys, OTOH . . . The trick is to find balance...

A mercurial defence procurement process. 🍻

The M113 was an FMC, now BAE, product. I'm not so sure they would give GDLS licence to build them or their components with BAE now building the AMPV as the M113 replacement. The steel AMPV weighs over twice what the aluminum skif comes in at. 🍻

I see a number of improvements which make it an interesting vehicle. First and foremost is that it has tracks due to combat experience with the conditions of Ukraine. Rural Germany and I expect much of Wester Europe is the same. I'm still a fan of tracks. Using proven technology and existing...

I think that applies to most defence sector industries. The problem with the "next project" is Canada's reliance on orgy purchasing. Not 300 trucks per year but 2,000 as fast as possible with no "next contract" for twenty years thereafter. You couldn't build a better system to destroy an ongoing...

There's a difference in trusting America and America acting in its own self interest. I think we all knew that America would always work to promote its own self interest. Concurrently, though, we trusted that America always knew and respected the fact that its own self interest relied on, or at...

I agree with the sensors issue. My problem is the statement that "it doesn't take an armed system outside of open war." Hybrid warfare has already begun. We will be short of "open war" for a while yet but there is a need to have appropriate armed systems available to deal with events short of...

Not sure if this is posted elsewhere. Interesting to see the US is part of it. And this: 🍻

FYI and 🍻