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You seem to be much more willing to deploy US ground forces in a number of places (Yemen, Iran) than either the US administration or US public appear to be willing to do.

I stand to be corrected, but I don't think the suggestion was that for example that an active mall with an empty tenant location (like a former Bay store) would be used as an armoury, but rather that a mall that has been completely closed (and there are a few) could be transformed in whole into...

A couple of things related to the Ukraine War... Are we getting closer to the point where first contact will be drone vs drone? https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-claims-first-ever-battle-between-naval-drones/ More and more being bolted on to tanks to counter the drone threat...

Of course with our Arctic territories we'd have to modify the idea somewhat...

Interesting that the Engineer Regiments (other than 4ESR) and the Support Battalions were not listed in the Divisional re-assignments in the Organization Message while pretty much every other CA unit (including bands) as far as I can tell were. Is there still some question as to where they will...

Yes and no I guess. Building a one-off batch of Gripens doesn't make a lot of sense to me. You need something to follow to keep domestic production going and more Gripens after the initial contract don't make sense when other options like GCAP will be coming online. I've always felt the...

FTFY

Nah....hardly a war at all https://defence-blog.com/u-s-forces-destroy-three-iranian-oil-tankers/

I'm surprised that the Light Regiment hasn't been given an Arctic focus...and BvS10 would be great for that but I don't think you'd have much luck towing an M777 up there. Better choice would be to have a 120mm mortar version.

The differences in responses to North Korea and Iran prove that point. There were people on this website tracking the US military build-up and asset re-deployments for both Venezuela and Iran. The preparations for a major conventional attack by Russia or China would likely be signaled by a...

Isn't this exactly the kind of "Canadianization" trap that we regularly complain about driving up the costs of our military contracts? Asking the sub designer to "define, modify, navally certify" and work with industry to meet the requirements of a hypothetical system that does not currently...

Comparing Israel to Canada is like comparing toasters to elephants. Israel faces a wide range of aerial threats all the way from FPVs to IRBMs and everything in between, and none of those threats require the enemy to launch an expeditionary force in order to deploy them. Any significant...

For those that view drones and the "transparent battlefield" as signaling the death of the tank, there is this counter-argument from some tankers in the US as well as an overview of some of the experimentation going on...

Development and testing moving forward with GDLS's Bradley replacement bid. Would be a nice potentially domestically assembled option for our Heavy Brigades to go with new tanks. https://defence-blog.com/gdls-delivers-first-xm30-wolf-vehicle-to-u-s-army/

Due to the massive area that needs to be covered, ground-based AD systems are best suited to point defence of vital points. Fighters are the best choice for cruise missile defence of North America as they can much more rapidly redeploy to any axis of attack than anything ground-based. And in...

Well the work is obviously going to have to pause on this site... "Hey guys, take 5...smoke 'em if you got 'em" NO, WAIT!

I agree on not tariffing energy for two reasons. 1) as Trump noted in his response to Doug Ford's "Kiss My Ass" comment, the Canadian oil that gets refined in Sarnia comes up through the United States. Mess with the oil going South and they may mess with the oil coming back North. and 2) The...

Again, not dismissing drones as I agree that they will play a significant role in any future conflict. However, as countermeasures are developed (both passive and kinetic) to protect vehicles from drones we may go from 15-20 FPV drones required to take out an armoured vehicle to maybe 50+...

I view hosting AI data centers as being a matter of self-defence. When AI becomes self aware and decides to wipe out humanity it's not going to nuke its own facilities. Forget NIMBY...the safest place to be will be living next door to one!

FPV drone operators operate from static positions. Movement by the operator makes maintaining an effective and continuous link with the directional antenna problematic and the movement also causes disorientation with the operator. Similarly drone operators moving in a vehicle become a highly...