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With no potatoes, and nothing else of value, is Ireland worth invading? At one time it was fashionable to expand one's land borders, but with industry and technology making that passe, why bother with Ireland at all? Weak beer and imitation Scotch? 😉

I think Canada needs a Black Watch to keep people in line... A reminder of who we were, and who we are. A nation of angry people blowing on the inflated innards of helpless animals to create the most magical sounds imaginable.

I lean more conservative, but this crap pushes me away too. Where I come from, being respectful is the baseline for communication. If people are disrespectful, they aren't taken seriously. This sort of behaviour, ignored or supported by the firearms community at large, just makes the gun...

I'm aware of what an RFI is, and I am also aware enough to recognize when an RFI is essentially situating the estimate. I also know that the people employed by defense contractors who make more than twice what I do are also aware of these things. When an RFI is released, indicating the people...

If the RFI sends the wrong message, people with good kit might just ignore it because they feel it's a biased game they can't win anyway. Unless the LAV 10x10 with RCH turret turns out to be like the MGS, and is utterly unsuitable for service... Then we have wasted the better part of decade...

Except this now gives them easy ammo to use against the firearms community... It's pretty easy to paint the community as racist hillbillies when people do dumb things like this. It's a classic example of smooth brains not thinking beyond "haha this funny right now", and failing to consider the...

Spain dropped the F-35 from competition in favour of European aircraft. Switzerland is in the middle of a fight over the F-35s they ordered, and it seems unlikely that they will want to buy from LM again.

It's extra capacity to meet surge demand for kit. Kind of like the surge that hit in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. The company with the most capacity to produce things is the company most likely to win contracts in those situations. There is also the reality that Canada would likely have...

I suppose it would depend on how you define value. Are we likely to produce enough to turn the plant into a profitable business? Probably not, but the ability to make things like howitzers is pretty much priceless when the shooting starts. Perhaps we should go back to an older way of...

100% agree. We should be thinking beyond just buying. We should be looking to form partnerships and build things here where possible. It will cost more, but it will give us a defense base to build on when needed.

We are living in times like the mid-late 1930s. Great powers are being belligerent, and planning to use force to inflict their will on others. While at the same time, other powers are realizing that their forces aren't large enough, or well enough equipped for the coming war/wars. The CRCN...

Youre kinda proving my point, that the culture divide isn’t specific to AB. The culture of rural Canada tends to be very different in practical ways from the culture of urban Canada, regardless of the province/region. It tends to lean more conservative/right, while urban tends to lean more...

It is a partisan issue, because the support for separation is almost entirely right wing, and the loudest opposition comes from the left. I keep seeing peiple mention culture, and how AB doesn't have it's own, but that is false. If we didn't have competing cultural visions, we wouldn't have...

Ignoring the reality that in an all volunteer force, soldiers/sailors/air humans get a say in whether or not they want to go, and then stay somewhere, is a weaker argument. You can't hand wave away inconvenient realities. If the CAF wants to send people to live full-time in the North, the CAF...

@ytz pretty much nailed it. The whole sovereignty thing is a bit of a distraction that people have lobbed into the mix. If we wanted sovereignty, we'd have to go ask Dassault for Rafales. It's not about people being "Gripen fanboys", It's about people seeing the potential in investing in...

Not sure, I'm not posted there and my experience with the army was nearly two decades ago... I do know that Ottawa and Pet get colder winters on average than Anchorage. That means the people there are more acclimatized to colder weather than people in warmer climates. As I said, there is...

This ignores the reality that climate conditions aren't just based on latitude, and that America has far more forces from much farther south than any Canadian bases. So if the troops aren't from Alaska, and they are operating in a continental arctic climate vs a more moderate maritime arctic...

I suspect the type of millennial you are makes a difference. I was born in the early 80's in a rural area, so my experience is similar to yours/Gen X, but those born at the end of the generation likely are far more like the Gen Z than like us. I also suspect those are the millennials people are...

What is curious about an American with lots of cash coming to Canada? Even the worst humans tend to just do normal human things on occasion, like buy a burger or visit a place...

If you stick to the specific forums for the firearm type you're interested in the site is a goldmine, but if you dip a toe in the political side it's an absolute cesspit.