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I'm not suggesting drones won't be an ever present part of warfare... Playing Ghost Recon back in the late-00's/early-10's I saw the advantage of drones for recce. I'm more specifically speaking about strike drones. You're correct that aircraft persist, but they have had to become far more...

What are the actual number for those tasks, and what parts of those tasks can be double hatted? EW is a pretty broad domain, and until you're down into the weeds on software and hardware specirfic details there is likely a lot of work that overlaps quite a bit. My point is, nobody is denying...

No peacetime military is ever agile. Ukraine until 2022 was still a post-soviet state with a soviet style military. It was Western advisors, and battlefield experience, that helped them adapt. They have managed to adapt and become agile pretty fast, so our military, that has been trained to...

There is also likely the calculation that NATO would be less willing to take losses, so making the end to the war in Ukraine a part of the NATO peace deal would in theory force NATO to force Ukraine to accept territory losses. Seems a bit like a long shot, particularly given what NATO air...

Reading about it earlier I had a similar thought. I couldn't see a takedown plan that would involve letting the attackers get kitted-up, and enter a village. It's possible the police knew that the guys were planning something, and it's equally possible the police lost track of them and just...

Not really, the two party system kind of reinforces my point that it isn't fringe. People knew what he was before casting their vote. It wasn't like 2016, he had a track record. So people don't get to pretend they had no idea what he was going to do when he got back into the oval office.

I think that until the leader of America, voted in by about half of the electorate, decided to use our close ties as a weapon to attempt de-industrialize Canada, being close to America was great. These days, I'm not so convinced, and I'm not convinced that anything will meaningfully change in...

To quote a great: I have lost all confidence in the CCFR based on their insistence that people won't be paid, when I and many others have already been paid. It comes across as a desperate fundraising attempt, particularly given this is based on a reddit comment.

Has anyone considered that the "planning" for an American invasion was most likely a two minute conversation about how we'd be hooped, and the offical government position would be "stand down" the CAF to avoid civilian casualties? Considering/planning for an event doesn't mean wishing for it...

It's almost as if despite 58 years of pretending we are one CAF, there are still distinct differences between the elements... Smarter people than me, have said for years that the CAF isn't one experience or culture. Even within Ottawa, there are vast differences in culture between commands...

Again, it's unfair to put this on consumers. Governments created the incentives for larger vehicles with the CAFE standards. It's cheaper for Toyota to make a larger RAV4 hybrid, than it is to make a modern Yaris. If we want smaller and more efficient cars, we need to push governments to...

It's not so much that car companies hate small cars, it's that the CAFE regulations make producing a small cars too expensive. The fuel economy standards are higher the smaller the vehicle's footprint, and SUVs/trucks have separate fuel economy standards that are far more achievable. Turns out...

How exactly? Ford works for the Ontario voters, not the PM. You mean like when he told BC to get on board, or the money and development would go elsewhere? As for the other A/C, have we already paid for them? Was there another competitor that met the requirements? Remember, the Gripen met the...

I had a Hyundai Kona with the "terrible" 2.0L engine. Never had a single issue with it, but I stayed on top of oil changes +/- 500km of the recommended intervals. Also, exceptions don't disprove the general rule that cars are better and more mechanically reliable than before. There were lots...

I'd add to that by saying many people don't operate their vehicle wisely either. I.e. never consider engine/oil/transmission temps before hammering the throttle. Some times you dont really have the option to warm everything before hitting the highway, but even then you can watch your...

How many people were driven into weird corners of the internet because having a rational discussion at that time was impossible. If you weren't 100% on the side of the government, you were an enemy of science and likely a racist... Maybe he was already in those weird corners long before it...

Apart from the fact Trump threatened annexation, and in doing so destroyed American credibility with many of it's closest allies... So he created extreme distrust of America, (to the point nations deployed tripwire troops) to achieve something that could have been negotiated quietly and...

My point was that the shooting was in Ontario, not Quebec.

Minor point, but Belleville is in Ontario. It's the closest city to CFB Trenton.

There is also the fact that some features are handy. I have OnStar in my truck, that allows me to see where my truck is at all times, will automatically call emergency services if my airbags deploy and I don't respond to their call, allows me to lock/unlock the truck remotely, call emergency...