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Direct entry makes one a commissioned officer. Not everyone needs to be a commissioned officer. Money on the other hand speaks volumes. Stop fixating on the ordanance corps. This is an issue far broader than that. 🍻

Feel free to question it. You're wrong. You are confusing activities within a domain with the domain itself. For the most part they are except when they are "vehicles or carriers" for the delivery of other ordnance. We could always have a better organized logistics system. For the most part...

Okay. I reiterate my position that Canada needs for an American style WO program. (Incidentally the USN and Space Force do not have one, just the Army and USAF) The key here is to allow higher, near officer equivalent, pay for qualified specialist people from the day they enroll without...

I disagree with the main premise - that drones constitute a domain in themselves - ut not with the complexity of the issue. Land, Sea and Air are clear domains - as is space and cyber (and information) (albeit one could argue space is merely an extension of the air domain but that ship has...

That's been running through my mind as well. The River-class conception and design goes back many years well before the current state of naval affairs. It makes me wonder how long it would take the Navy to reconceptualize naval warfare and how long it would take to repurpose/redesign a River...

Same comment re the Financial Times paywall as on the other thread. :(

My guess is that there are only two other folks on this forum with an account to the Financial Times who can get through the paywall. :(

Yup. Seen it with barbed wire and even field phone wire but I can't say that I've ever run into any missile control wire in the field. 🍻

Good questions - I don't know the answer. Can't say in my years that I've ever run into either SS11 or TOW wires. :unsure:

Thought of the day - range impact areas need to be swept and cleaned every once in a while for unexploded projectiles. What happens after thousands of fibre optic drones leave their gossamer threads crisscrossing the countryside? :unsure:

At this rate you folks will be buying K9s and MGS on Boxer (or LAV 10X10). 🍻

ERCA was scrapped over two years ago. It bogles my mind that with L52 barrels and mounts and even automated turrets being around for years and years that the US Army is returning to building A7s rather than having a functional A8. WTF? 🍻

Absolutely. I'll PM you. No use tying up this thread. 🍻

Like just about anything, there is an advantage in having light, medium and heavy options to suit the circumstances. You may only need 100 of the heavies versus 10,000 of the lights, but unless you can couple a number of light systems into a single unit to be able to complete the heavy function...

Old article which makes me want to see where they are two years latter. :unsure:

You and I are totally in sync. I don't think the CAF is. As a side note I just submitted my last material for "WAFG" to our editors which leaves me free to work on revising "Unsustainable" which should be interesting in light of CAMO and Aimpoint 1 and other things. Waiting with bated breath...

Being shown "why cheap sensors could be the key" is unnecessary. What we need a re actual examples of cheap, viable sensors built into a layered system coupled to a viable warning/fire control system integrated with masses of cheap layered air defence effectors. So far we're a little short on...

I'm not sure what you mean by that because, if anything, I have a pretty good understanding of the various meanings of "reserves" and "reserve equipment." The point I was making was in response to @KevinB's comment which was simply to reiterate that "reserve equipment," should not simply be...

God, we're old. :cool:

Oh! :oops: