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They shouldn’t be. Electronics doesn’t mean more issues, and if designed correctly are easily diagnosed, and modules swapped out. Part of the issue is armored vehicles tend to have diverging requirements (well everything really does, as cheap never aligns with easy) Some Pretty...

Well I read that as whoring General so…

Realistically Canadian IAMD is NORAD. BMD is the largest part. Everything designed for Expeditionary can be used Domestically. The opposite isn’t necessarily true. It is one reason why I am a fan of designing for Expeditionary Operations.

As much as your affinity for equating absolutely everything to Europe or Ukraine, there are things Ukraine can do due to the defensive nature of their situation. Expeditionary forces do not have the same ability, and need to bring their systems with them.

I think you hit the point below. Electronic and Optical sensors already on the vehicle Additional sensors added to vehicles as needed. But to me there is a massive need for: Gathering of mass data from multi spectrum sensors. The ability to send unheard of amounts of data secure data...

The onboard FC Radar (and its integrated software) is distance, speed, heading and pitch; to provide a firing solution. Some purpose built VSHORAD gun systems can take feeds from external and use them in conjunction with their FCS and to remain entirely passive. (some systems have no...

The radar really needs to be viewed solely as Fire Control/Targeting Control. It isn’t much of a detection tool, as it’s a LW narrow beam system. The system can STC once the radar has the target. So it’s more manual orientation to get radar looking out at a target - then with radar...

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RIP. Entirely too young.

Not reportedly. Well other than Ukrainian ‘sanctions’ https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-hits-key-russia-iran-shipping-hub-on-caspian-sea-in-first-makhachkala-port-strike-22426

Well it’s limiting AD missiles (beyond PAC-3 MSE) that can be sent or sold to Ukraine. As well it seems to be boosting Iranian S&T/R&D work on SUAS system.

As much as I hate to use DoD down here as an example, there are a number of courses available (and some required) for positions to learn the procurement cycle from soup to nuts. Of course non of that matter if you ignore key aspects of requirements writing (which tends to occur down here)...

FIFY Admittedly they are much further along than the Russian 6th Gen, which appears based on if a Tu-22 and SU-57 had a bastard love child just made even bigger and less stealthy. I was wondering if that was what one hungover engineer did after they missed a deadline - but ChatGPT...

Years before budgets had line items for Black programs, a lot of Contractors help hide classified programs in plain sight One persons limited production is another’s outrageously lavish numbers. While I’m not a DJT fan, America kept forces a lot of places after WW2 to counter communism, as...

Or Bde patches. Honestly pick one or the other.

If you have a replacement program, the replacement needs to at least do what the predecessor did. You can’t issue a MANPAD and then say, sorry it doesn’t work against Aircraft or Helicopters… We retired the M-72 in favor of the AT-4. The DMR and LMG came from two different capability...

Considering late FY26 is the slated delivery year for Canada’s first but why? Canada committed late to the party. It is amazing that folks don’t want to just give you thinks for free right? Germany and the Swiss are the current build units. The RCAF still has not gotten the required...

You understand that some of the Defense companies here have annual IRD budgets larger than most European defense budgets for a decade. Defense Dollars as well as DARPA and NRL money are at an entirely different scale here as opposed to the rest of the world. Korea JV’d and has considerable...

Conventional Active Search Radars are detectable miles beyond what they can detect. Add in that Russian AD Networks have been continuously mapped for decades. The fixed site ones at least. The mobile systems have limited range and generally aren’t operating unless activated for a...

My point was that Germany (when it isn’t illegally shipping stuff in nebulously marked ‘machine parts’ containers with questionable BoL’s) can be a worse partner in Defense issues - Europeans are just as myopic as Americans, usually a little less crass and abrupt, but equally willing to bend...