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I am not sure what that means? What is 1+1?

Regarding the M10 Booker, the requirement for the 82nd Airborne to fight in Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) was one of the drivers of the requirement. The airborne is indeed supposed to be able to conduct LSCO, and an example can be found in the concept paper for the new US Army divisions...

Well, we already have six mech battalions in our army, so getting us to 2 tank regiments would mean 2 x CMBG however they were geographically distributed. Likely one out west and one in Gagetown, but with the Gagetown one potentially having some its mech battalions elsewhere (just like 1 CMBG...

A CMBG with two mech infantry (tracked or not) battalions and a tank regiment would certainly be viable. It is possible to have units of a brigade located in different bases (the case currently for two of our CMBGs), but it makes combined arms training more expensive and episodic. As a tanker in...

The square combat team (a full squadron and a full infantry company) would be a rare grouping on an actual battlefield. Its more of a training construct. A more typical combat team from a battle group consisting of a tank squadron and two or three infantry companies would be something like a...

I am certainly not fascinated with mounting missiles and UAVs on every tank, and I am not tracking that major powers are looking at that? CUAS, though, is a broad capability. Some are quite simple to operate.

Well, the story of the tank has always been the story of combined arms. I am not sure what you are driving at? My thought is, barring a true breakthrough in materials or powerplant, the current generation of tanks are good. New programs will likely result in lots of money spent for no real new...

I joined in 1989, so I guess I am getting well-seasoned... I was on Cougars in the reserves while I was in university. I was a tank troop leader on C1s in Petawawa and a BC on C2s in Petawawa. We left our tanks in Wainwright at the end of the BTE...I was recce after that (2IC and OC) but...

With regards to Leopards in 4 CMBG, the RCD had two manned squadrons of 19 tanks in Germany (A and B Sqn) with another tank squadron in storage at Lahr with caretaker staff. C Sqn was in Gagetown New Brunswick with its own tanks and they were the "flyover" squadron. If "the balloon went up" it...

When was the IDF using the 60mm high-velocity cannon on operations? I do appreciate the higher rate of fire and number of stowed on-board kills associated with guns over missiles, but there might be a reason why that 60mm cannon did not enter operational service on AFVs outside of Chile. The...

Is it possibly time for someone to take this thread out behind the barn and humanely put it out of its misery with a P320? Or some other firearm of choice?

I was on that Ex - Troop Leader. We'd already passed that point, but a scary moment! On a later FTX in Gagetown my Bravo went into a hole around Scotty Dog and we were only able to save the tank as it slipped-in further by connecting the other three tanks and hanging-on until the ARV and Badger...

I was in the ARes (1H) from 89 to 97 and then Reg F after that (RCD). The Coyote was a Lynx replacement. The 3 x Reg F Recce Sqns each received three Troops of seven Coyotes. Each Patrol had a Mast and a Remote while the Tp Ldr and OC had the clean variants. The Reg F Mech Battalions received...

The Coyote was never intended for ARes service to my knowledge.

The Regular Force mech infantry battalions had Coyotes in their Recce Platoons from 1997 until 2003. They were then all sent to the RCAC. Any use of Coyotes by ARes units would have been very episodic. I recall that in Ontario there were some ARes personnel trained on Coyote (sometimes ahead...

I was ARes when the Coyote started to be fielded and was Reg F at the RCD in 97. The Coyotes were never intended for the ARes. Some ARes received Coyote quals as part of regional initiatives, but this was not part of the fielding. The three Reg F Recce Sqns received a mix of Coyote Mast, Coyote...

News sources that are usually credible and understated are reporting 1000 dead over the last three days, with over 700 being unarmed civilians executed by forces aligned with the government. The government’s security forces are a patchwork quilt of former insurgent groups, and there are reports...

In what seems to be the language of diplomacy these days, the Israelis do indeed appear to be holding the cards. Having said that, do they want a larger area to control that would, no doubt, turn into an insurgency? To your point, do they need to find a balance between making hay while the sun...

To lighten the mood with all the stuff going on I thought I would look into what is going on in Syria...The new regime does appear to be trying to govern the country, but they have several areas of concern. The Kurds continue to hold their areas and there have been clashes. Regarding the...

I am not finance, but the Comptroller Branch has reported to me for a couple of years which has given me a few insights. They are hard-working and there is some pressure that goes with the job. On any given Friday afternoon they are looking after someone that needs something right-away. They...