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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...

I’d argue that the CAF has the obligation to Canadians to provide the most credible defense force as possible. Everyone gets angry about ITARs, but very few folks understand why it was instituted. It isn’t USTAR, the I is International. ITAR was brought in as the UN was working on...

No chest badge? FMC, AMF-L, LFC, or whatever it is now for the Army? I had assumed the context was Mil Air. But again, I’m not even sure if that really is such a thing anymore.

Other than hints, there isn’t anything OS out based in fact. One can do a quick search and see trolling memes of what dozen of different people with some fairly incompetent graphics abilities and incomplete knowledge can spit out into the wild. Nothing beyond vague renderings have been put...

SAVAK was one of the biggest causes of the Revolution. Murder, Rape, torture more torture and lots more torture, as well as assassinations out of state. SAVAK actually taught torture classes to some of the neighbors. Took them a few days. There are some interesting stories about how...

Pretty sure some (large number of) asshats in St Petersburg is to blame.

You lost me. As what I took issue with wasn’t some localized disruption. Because at the end of the day Russia re-routing and isolating parts of occupied Kherson should not be shocking. You claimed that in the event of hostilities that Cross Border Internet Traffic would stop...

Muddy Bog stuff, I’m not sure 28t will work. I agree with you on the neither Fish nor Fowl, and I’m sure it’s isn’t Filet ;( Having seen a variety of disastrous swim attempts in peacetime, I think it’s sheer insanity in a combat under fire concept. Maybe it briefs well. So to me, the...

I see the role for the 40-50t HIFV Track I see a role for a <15t swimmable 8x8 (LAV-25, LAV 2.0 series vehicles) They lost me at the 28t swimming track. I do see a role for a 3rd type of armored vehicle, but that would be a BvS10 <10t swimmable track - mainly for northern mobility.

I am a big of directed buys - providing it makes sense. What should never happen is buying something solely to buy it. I am an E-7 fan, simply as I think it is a better platform for Canada’s size and location. That said, with NATO going GlobalEye, the platform isn’t going to be a sniveling...

The IRGC focused on a mosaic defense system. RUSI had some good podcasts last month - and while some info is stale — the point still exists is no one is really charge, and no one trusts anyone. The IRCG has tried to rebuild C2 lines, but often only to allow the USAF or USN to take out...