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Well, we have fifteen Leopard 2A4Ms forward deployed to eFP Latvia now. This was no mean feat - well done to those who did (and are still doing) the work to make that happen. The Canadian Army now has a world-class capability deployed to a theatre for which it was truly designed. We tend to...

The flow of equipment for the expanded eFP is part of STDE as is the RIP of the eFP BG. There are other components as well. The Light Battalion piece won't be until later in the year - not under the STDE umbrella.

You were talking about how hard it would be to get tanks to theatre. I merely pointed out that we already did it. The tanks are there now. And we've done it before. I sailed on TRIDENT JUNCTURE. I am a little proud of our strat movers - they've helped me a couple of times with the movement of...

Sure, which is the whole point of STEADFAST DEFENDER.

Except Leopards are not TAPVs. We use our Leopard as Leopards. This doesn't mean we drive around without a care in the world asking to get shot. Tanks move tactically, bounding from feature to feature using covered approaches supported by other tanks. We use turret downs, hulldowns etc. Now...

This may come as a shock, but we just moved a Leopard Sqn to Europe by sea. We also moved the initial eFP BG by sea. We moved a CMBG HQ, Svc Bn, Light Battalion and associated support to Norway in 2018 by sea from near Valcartier. We are part of STEADFAST DEFENDER 24 this spring which...

A non-sensical discussion. Is everyone carrying 3 Javelin? Now, in a LSCO scenario I imagine that it you asked an infantry Company Commander if he would rather have 3 x MGS or one Javelin per Section then I expect he would take the Javelin. Every time. MGS is dead anyway. But war is not a...

We have 15 Leopard 2A4M in Europe right now.

That's not really how it works. Its not about "targets served." What can kill or suppress the soldier with the Javelin? How does that soldier with a Javelin support an assault? Or an advance? Or conduct counter-moves? Tanks have been killable by relatively cheap systems since they entered...

All RCAC units will be "Armoured Cavalry. " How a CMBG Comd chooses to group his forces for a given task will likely look similar to today. If a CMBG Comd has three Heavy Sqns with Leopard 2s then I anticipate he will use them pretty much like tank squadrons. A rose by any other name would smell...

I am just saying that I do not speak for the RCAC and that some of my colleagues may well have differing professional opinions from me. It will be hard to convince me, though, that an M10 is a better tank than a Leopard C2. I am not an equipment project guy, but acquisition is not like a Real...

I joined the ARes in London in 1989. There was something called "Strike Company", which I thought was a WWF tag-team but was actually a grouping of Militia folks from a number of units around London that tried to train on AVGP provided by 1 RCR. They were not part of 1 RCR - but were rather...

An interesting thought exercise. I think I would only want the three fleets if the light and medium were the same chassis with the same powertrain etc. Which might be a non-starter. Would I take nine squadrons of M10s instead of three squadrons of Leo2s and six squadrons of LAV Recce/LRSS? I...

I think there is something to be said for rolling any ARes units into Reg F units that are geo-located with them.

There will always be a training requirement when moving between platforms. At a minimum there are the individual training (courses) aspects related to actually operating the equipment. Then there are the individual training aspects related to tactics/employment. There can also be collective...

At the risk of hijacking this thread to talk about tanks and armour, I will give a little more context on my last post (I lost half of the post). The doctrine note identifies tactical tasks that all armoured units will execute within the categories of Offence, Defence, Stability and Enabling...

You have it backwards. This Armoured Cavalry initiative expressed in the Doctrine Note is not focused on the vulnerability of tanks and that we would therefore use them for reconnaissance. There are number of factors driving this shift, but one of them is a sense that traditional "sneak and...

Sorry - missed this. My understanding is that it will be seven recce/Armour Sqn (Medium/Light) Sqns. This is the current Pet and Val laydown with C Sqn RCD in Gagetown converting while the LdSH convert their one recce/Armour Sqn (Medium/Light) to tanks (Armour Squadron Heavy?). I don't want...

The Canadian Army is reorganizing it’s Armour regiments. Eighteen months ago there were two tank squadrons at the LdSH in Edmonton and then C Sqn RCD in Gagetown. C Sqn is a mix of RCD and 12 RBC. When the dust settles there will be three tank squadrons (Armour Sqn Heavy?) in Edmonton and seven...

They've purchased a battalion worth of tanks and support vehicles - all good. Although they have smartly included 4 x AVLB for small gap crossing, I would hardly characterize this purchase as emphasizing water-crossing capability. I will let the Romanians figure out their organization including...