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  1. Kirkhill

    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    Further to I doubt if a pickup would get the job done.
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  4. Kirkhill

    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    Will it take a 35mm? (1050 m/sec 550-750 g) 30mm x 173mm (1050 m/sec 360 g) 30mm x 113mm (800 m/sec 250 g) 12.7mm (800 m/sec 45 g) 30x113 seems to be the preferred upgrade to the M2/M3 HB as still within the limits of the lower classes of RWS .
  5. Kirkhill

    G7 Kananaskis 2025

    Should we talk to Liz Truss and Rachel Reeves about bond exposure? Or how about Brian Mulroney, Michael Wilson, Jean Chretien and Paul Martin? https://financialpost.com/uncategorized/lessons-from-canadas-basket-case-moment
  6. Kirkhill

    Pipelines

    Decarbonization - Carbon Capture is getting the press but decarbonization, for purposes of public relations spin, means reducing the amount of carbon spent extracting the carbon from the ground. Effectively it means more carbon to sell.... This is what Smith and Carney are talking about when...
  7. Kirkhill

    G7 Kananaskis 2025

    No bets. I thought I had seen that answer somewhere https://www.theaudit.ca/p/who-owns-canadas-public-debt If your company had 11% of its shares held by a hostile competitor would you be worried?
  8. Kirkhill

    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    Air movements? We are seriously under-resourced in that field. Hercs and Hooks? A local squadron of Hooks picking up people at their armouries on Fridays to take them to Abbotsford or Kelowna for a Herc flight to Wainwright or Suffield. Weapons drawn on arrival. I know it is expensive...
  9. Kirkhill

    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    This map explains a lot of the problems with BC. Crown land is a claim. Along with many others. Even the modern treaty land in BC is apparently in dispute between bands. How does Singapore maintain a useful defence force? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Armed_Forces...
  10. Kirkhill

    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    It gives a whole new meaning to "tanglefoot". Kevlar Optical Fibre? https://www.dupont.com/fabrics-fibers-and-nonwovens/fiber-optics.html
  11. Kirkhill

    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    And there is this to consider as well
  12. Kirkhill

    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    Wainwright area 583 km2 Suffield area 2700 km2 Gagetown area 1100 km2 Valcartier area 288 km2 Petawawa area 300 km2 .... UAVs, and the C-UAV battle, which are likely to be a feature of section and platoon engagements, seem to eat up a lot of real estate really fast. ..... Hero 120 LAM is...
  13. Kirkhill

    Pipelines

    Actually, the English have tried to take the Oil and Gas money from the Scots and now they want to shut it down.... WRT to the Ksi Lisims situation, from what I can gather from the maps, Pearse Island is outside the settled land claim of the Nisga'a but within the territory claimed by at least...
  14. Kirkhill

    Pipelines

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-liberals-clean-energy-crusade-has-been-a-super-disaster 200 BCAD since 2015 to achieve 8.5/40 as of 2030. Roughly the half way point. "Not prepared to provide appropriate support to ... workers in the fossil fuel sector." And thus...
  15. Kirkhill

    Pipelines

    For reference I would describe the Scots, English, Irish, Welsh relations (and Scouse, Brummie, Geordie, Cockney) in similar terms.
  16. Kirkhill

    Pipelines

    https://calgaryherald.com/news/g7-summit-danielle-smith-opportunity-alberta-energy?tbref=hp
  17. Kirkhill

    G7 Kananaskis 2025

    https://www.pgpf.org/article/the-federal-government-has-borrowed-trillions-but-who-owns-all-that-debt/ https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Bonds/Foreigners-hold-more-JGBs-than-Japan-banks-for-first-time https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/334/uk-economy/uk-national-debt/...
  18. Kirkhill

    G7 Kananaskis 2025

    Legitimate.
  19. Kirkhill

    G7 Kananaskis 2025

    That is a really good question. But is it good practice to rely on the outlier as a working model? Maybe the rest aren't "hovering around the bankrupt levels" but by all appearances they (especially the Brits, French and Italians) are struggling to keep out of financial difficulties...
  20. Kirkhill

    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    Pickup trucks are adequate. 30x113mm Bushmaster on an American RWS 30x113mm Bushmaster on an Australian RWS with EO and Radar 12.7mm M2 on a Ukrainian RWS with EO, Radar and AI. .... These I consider to be local, or point defense systems. They can travel with any forces, including foot-borne...
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