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Two articles on the Ukrainian strike on a semi-conductor plant in Voronezh. https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-hits-the-factory-inside-russias-missile-supply-chain/ The strike was against the producer of very specific components in the Russian missile supply chain. This is the kind of precision...

I get that we have a doctrine about how we'd like the Army to fight and that we're trying to build an Army structure to match the doctrine however in my opinion Canada is in a somewhat unique position in terms of how we are likely to use our mechanized Division (however we're planning on naming...

Sweden already has the Patria AMV... In addition to the Patria Pasi I think they've already got wheeled mobility covered.

If you were to ask me if some people deserve death as a consequence of their actions my answer would be an absolute YES! However, as @lenaitch rightly notes our justice system is not infallible and I would much prefer that some individuals that absolutely deserve to die instead spend the rest...

Looks like attrition is forcing Russia to impose a new wave of mobilization: https://defence-blog.com/kremlin-moves-to-launch-new-mobilization-wave/ Some items of note from the article: You'll note that the key ethnically Russian urban areas of Moscow and St-Petersburg are not mentioned.

Doesn't even have to be a peer aircraft to be a threat... https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iran-50-year-f4-f5-new-tactics-evade-defences

Absolutely. Nothing is certain until the contracts are signed and even then with Canada that might not even be enough. However, to be fair it's these reports that sparked the renewed discussions of a split fleet to begin with, so it's not just wild conjecture based on nothing.

But that is exactly what is apparently being discussed as the option: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/f-35-gripen-saab-lockheed-martin-canadian-armed-forces-9.7225549

I've said before that Gripen wouldn't be my first choice for the NORAD half of a split NORAD/Expeditionary fleet...that would be the F-15EX, but unfortunately the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave makes that a non-option. The advantage of Gripen though is establishing domestic...

I'll start by saying (yet again) that I am 100% in favour of an F-35 buy of at a minimum of the original planned 65 aircraft (and ideally the full 88). It is the only current aircraft available to Canada that is survivable in a non-permissive peer conflict. If open war were to break out...

Just because the HIMARS FLEX can carry both Rockets/SSM's and AD pods doesn't mean you have to make the individual vehicles multi-role. Issue the ones with the Rocket/SSM pods to the field artillery regiments and the ones with the Patriot/IFPC pods to the AD regiments. You wouldn't think...

What about additional conversions though?

I'd think the TAPV would be an ideal vehicle for the pending RCAF Regiment and the MP's

The biggest advantage of Canada buying the F-35 instead of the Gripen is that they will be much easier to integrate into the USAF when we get annexed. ;)

Hmmm....well maybe a split F-35/Gripen fleet isn't such a bad idea after all... https://www.defensenews.com/industry/techwatch/2026/06/12/only-1-in-4-f-35s-is-fully-mission-capable-gao-finds/

Well then the obvious solution would be to get all 12 x KS III's... ...and all 12 x Type 212CD's. See? Now everyone is happy and our boots are filled with industrial offsets! Now our next purchase will have to be a bunch of these to man crew the subs!

FTFY. You can never have enough airlift, especially when geography dictates that every operation is an expeditionary operation.

Well...if you went with a split fleet you should at least get 8 and 8. That way you could have a quiet sub-hunter and a missile boat active on each coast at all times. I wonder if you could talk Hanwha and TKMS into having a shared maintenance facility on each coast? If they teamed up they...

Ice knives on the hull in front of the radar dome to deflect the ice? Could they be retractable when not operating near the ice in order to reduce the noise effect?

Understood. However, that image is of an M1A1 without and APS. Typically the only drones using HEAT rounds are larger loitering munitions other than things like quad-copters that are dropping RPG rounds from above. If you have a combined 30mm RWS/APS/cope cage system the 30mm can handle...