Search results

There is a line between breaking the very very strong institutional inertia in the Army and breaking the Army by having everything in motion with no foot on the ground. I suspect we are going to make that line very fine and then try to walk it.

The limited funding leads me to think they are hoping secretly for mass non compliance and/or people to just Dewat their guns on their own. That way the government doesn’t have to spend money and can just pretend this doesn’t exist.

The current and historical Liberal stance on gun control guarantees that the Liberal Party of Canada will never garner a vote from myself. I could like every single other aspect of the LPC platform but the LPC gun control policy is a poison pill I am unwilling to swallow. If the LPC adopted the...

Last I heard was early December.

Here’s what might be in discussion for this. Likely a total of 4 CARBs. Reservists would sign up for 12-24 months of Class C. Talk is mostly of 24 with some push back that 12 is more realistic to expect. Readiness would rotate among them and the individual augmentation to the deployed Reg...

Danish contract with Colt Canada for 26,000 C8 MRRs to start. I like that it’s a IDIQ contract. https://soldiersystems.net/2025/08/21/colt-canada-awarded-major-danish-contract/

Some Canadian FMS funds directed to supporting SM2 Block IIICU development and manufacturing https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4272801/

Yeah, that’s all basically what I was tracking but maybe I missed something on the optics decisions. Those pictures clearly show a mix and match and I should not have maybe called them C8A4s. I found it amusing that they were running ELCANs with flip up iron sights in the up position with no...

I wasn’t tracking we had decided on optics. Which optics were picked? Any idea if we are proceeding with our proprietary reticle?

Some pictures of the C8A4. Apparently from a TASO course last year.

Ya, I have a 6004 with that half moon cut in it. Wish I could get a BHP now to use with it. I thought that the Aussie BHP upgrades were okay. I got to use one a bit before they retired them and they incorporated new grips, sights and safeties (I think? It’s been a while). I don’t think they...

I will take a look this week once I am in the office.

I thought that it’s since been amended and any NCO who is qualified on the C22 can instruct the C22. Therefore there is no need for the C22 instructor crse or new pers to be qualified that.

Another interesting aspect of the C22 rollout was that the Army initially mandated that to teach the C22 you had to be C22 instructor qualified. You couldn’t simply be qualified on the C22 and an NCO with the small arms course. This was done specifically to try to improve the pistol skills...

The 225 would have been a 8rnd mag. It’s the 226 that has a double stack mag with 15. I carried the 225 in Afghanistan, as we didn’t want the BHP.

The military and sport shooting have a closely intertwined history. It’s only in recent history that due to government policy have they diverged at an institutional level. At an individual level I agree we should not rely on private practice to attain the minimum skills needed but...

On the one hand I agree but I also recognize that it’s the civilian side through the shooting sports that has largely driven the advancement in pure firearms handling and shooting skills as well as technology. Those skills and equipment have migrated over to military and police as they...

The small arms cell in the Inf School had dreams of improving the quality of pistol training when the C22 was introduced. However the initiative was poorly thought out. The cell drafted and got signed off their vision for a C22 instructor package and C22 operator, which in theory the whole...

Maybe, but there’s been no discussion of doing so. If we were do do so properly we would also need to have thought put into what unit or formation we want to be based on this vehicle type, with the full suite of vehicle sub types then being procured. ISC, CP, Amb, MRT, Mortar, AD, Recce/Surv...

Domestic is not really being used in this case to mean outside the Arctic. It’s being used to mean non armed and non armoured and not intended for use in expeditionary war fighting missions. There will be a few scattered around at bases like Cold Lake etc. but the number aimed at being...