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This I'd like as an RWS on quite a few armoured systems. I note that there is a Bullfrog M2 for the 12.7mm and a range of 1,500 m. Every SP should have one. Also a Bullfrog 230 with a 30mm under development. 🍻

I think that when one starts to address the issue of air defence at the scale we now have to deal with it then there is no longer a need to have air defence gunners keep their hand in mud gunnery. AD has a need to develop skills all of its own from command and control to sensors to effectors to...

I currently have a primarily RegF light airborne brigade as part of the central Canada DOC div with a primary role up north and a secondary role as Canada's QRF. I'm toying with the idea of putting it in the GS Div. In '72 when I was in 3 RCHA in Wainwright, we worked together with the Brits'...

I wouldn't say Defence of Canada per se but still a viable system. We currently have enough M777s for 4 batteries and enough LG1s for three. I won't count the C3s other than as saluting base guns. With the number of M777s and G1s, we have enough guns for two regiments (or maybe three if you...

While rewriting "Unsustainable" and looking at reserve forces to compare to beyond the US and UK, I looked at several others and it became clear that for the most part they all have a form of SuppRes which in most cases is mandatory and part and parcel to the initial enrollment form, statutory...

That's my thought. IMHO, a division is a tactical entity and needs to me smaller, leaner and faster. I think the same about the brigade. The difference is that the brigade has the means and tactics to fight the close battle directly with its battlegroups while the division has the means and...

2008, damn it! 2008! First Danish now 2008! :(

Here you go mate. That one's at a the RCA museum. The rest were in storage in Montreal as late as 3008. Don't know where they went after that. Do you wonder why I get cynical at times. :(

There's a point where something is small and light enough where the difference between large wheels (like on that piece of kit) and tracks don't really matter that much. The bigger and heavier the vehicle is the more the ground pressure matters and tracks make a difference. On something as...

Honestly, my taste goes more towards French patisserie products - Oh, and a good German Käsekuchen of course. :giggle:

Damn. I knew that and yet my fingers typed "Danish." Maybe its because the Danes and Dutch are so similar. :giggle: :unsure:

I don't have enough experience with NATO multinational corps headquarters to comment directly, but a quick reading tells me there are an adequate numbers of corps headquarters in Europe already (10 or so). Jack Watling did a paper on this several years back after US 5 Corps was stood up again...

Interesting article about the UK forward presence in Estonia. The US pulled its infantry-heavy combined arms battalion out just recently with no indication if further rotations are forthcoming. My guess is that the equipment is still there but . . . If I read the tea leaves right that leaves...

Under Army 2030, 4 ID and each of 1 ID, 3 ID, and 36 ID were scheduled to become an armoured division with two ABCTs and one SBCT each. That changed last year when 4 ID was changed from III Corps to the Pacific focused I Corps. 3 ABCT was the last heavy brigade in 4 ID going into 2026. At this...

:ROFLMAO: And my blatant bias for tracks has been reinforced by watching three attempts to get up the sandy incline before finally deflating the tires. But yeah - 70 MPH on the highway. Just to get back to the issue. The Germans are using tracked Puma for its panzergrenadiers in panzer...

I'll agree that the Strategic Partnership is much more important than the new ACSVs. The partnership opens the door to ACV-W and all that entails albeit the scale of things will vary over time. IMHO, this virtually guarantees that the CA will be a wheeled and not tracked force for many years to...

I favoured the Hanwha as well (as did most folks in this forum judging by the poll). It was mostly because of the schedule and the VLS . . . but they're both good and each has its good points - my thoughts too come from a landlubbers point of view. I totally got the political issue on this and...

And the Indian one :giggle:

This is what happens when you become complacent and don't take enough defensive measures. If drones can kill tanks then they can kill anything on the battlefield that can be found and which isn't adequately defended. I've long ago come to the conclusion that close support artillery regiments...