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Positive ground and alla that, too.  >:D  If you think anything electric in the UK is bad, think about what a dog's breakfast their telephone system was - before digital telephone technology became widespread.

Ah yes, I remember the FN I was issued with... 7L6282. It stayed with me throughout my all too-short 2 year stint in the Reserves. It fired OK on the range, but would never cycle reliably with blanks. Never had a problem with a BFA flying off the barrel when using blanks, and I never needed to...

The Browning HP is still an excellent weapon. However, I am concerned that and are HP pistols which saw extensive WWII and Korean War and are being used in the field today, may have parts which are fatigued beyond their limits due to age and use. I also wonder if the HP can handle today's...

I agree fully with your argument that the current government should proceed to buy a fleet of Swedish-pattern Leo 2's. In fact, just about any current MBT would do, because they are the only platform that has sufficient mobility, speed, firepower and the survivability needed to provide fire...

Veddy interesting. Maybe this time we'll see something that is indigenously designed and suited exactly to Canadian requirements, instead of something designed in a foreign country and then called 'Canadian' just because it has a few modifications and additions developed here. It seems the...

RecceDG says: "Take a Bison. Cover the commander's hatch with a gun mount similar to the M1 commander's hatch, plus maybe a gun shield - so now you have optics, power traverse, power elevation (ok, not on M1, but we could do it) maybe a simple laser rangefinder, ballistic computer, and gun...

The risk of an Iranian oil bourse is probably one (if not the biggest) reason why US Vice President Dick Cheney recently paid a visit to the Alberta Tar Sands project. Even if the Iranians don't implement a bourse, there is still a risk that the US and Israel may attack over the nuclear...

I feel the way you do, vonGarvin. Anytime I see a discussion involving tanks and the Canadian Army, I want to bang my head against the wall. Simply because I see too many military professionals (officers and other ranks) claiming that Canada doesn't need tanks, and repeating that claim like it's...

OK, I stand corrected. My information came from news reports I remember reading many years ago. I'm curious as to why the US would have wanted to take our Leopard 1's in exchange. What use would they have had for them? The M60 wouldn't have been too bad, provided it was the A3 version. The...

<remainder snipped> By detailing the sheer size of Canada, you bring up an interesting point about the MGS. 72 of them is far too small a number to even begin to employ in a territorial defence role, or for that matter, cover any reasonable portion of a salient in combat operations. Indeed, 72...

MGS cancelled? Dear God, please, please let it be so! As for the idea of surplus M1A1's rebuilt and upgraded, they'd be a damn sight better than no tanks, or, God forbid, that abortion known as the MGS. In its dying days, the Mulroney government had the chance to get 300 M1's (armed with 105's)...

I apologize for causing you some confusion. My reading of the current deployment in Afghanistan suggests to me that G-Wagens are being used for most 'mud recce' taskings,including route proving, while the Coyotes are employed as semi-static battlefield surveillance posts. I didn't mean to...

Having ended my service in an reserve armoured recce unit over 25 years ago, I can't say I know anything about current SOP's or doctrines. But I will offer my two cents' worth on the utility of the G-Wagen. In my day, we had M38CDN and M151 jeeps in our squadron inventory. Main armament was a...

What you are describing isn't too far off from the Swedish-pattern Leopard 2A6. If I recall correctly, the Swedish 2A6's use the Galix smoke-dischargers (so do the Dutch-issue Leopard 2A5's). The Swedish tanks also use a STN Atlas Elektronik fire-control and command suite, just as the Germans...

Someone help me out here - to my eyes, the Eagle IV looks almost identical to the Duro APV the government is looking at purchasing. Or am I seeing something that isn't there?

Methinks the news media are blowing things out of proportion here (surprise, surprise). Buying barely more than a battery's worth of 155mm howitzers and 50 armoured patrol vehicles equipped with GPMG's is hardly what I would call true preparation for war. Now, if DND had announced large-scale...

Hmm. Interesting design. It reminds me somewhat of the GM-Delco-designed LAV-105 turret, which was first seen mounted on a LAV-25 hull. If the MGS could be cancelled (I doubt it will, even if we have a change of government), the wheeled fire support vehicle I'd put my money on would be the...

I'm going to wade in with my two cents here (well, maybe 1.5 cents before GST/PST). Gun bans of the type proposed by the Liberals do not work. Look at the experience of other countries/jursidictions: Great Britain: Private ownership of handguns banned; ownership of long guns severely...

<much stuff snipped> Finally, someone on this board who thinks as I do. The MGS is a piece of junk, in my estimation. If deployed in combat situations, it will cost lives, not save them. Let me put the argument more succinctly: Modern MBT gun range = 8 - 10km depending on ammo, fire control...

I agree wholeheartedly that the RG31 purchase is a very good (and big) step in the right direction. I remember learning about the RG31 a few years back and finding myself wondering why the military wasn't acquiring a whole fleet of them. In my estimation, the RG31 would be near-perfect for army...