C3 Howitzer Replacement

[Colin Parkinson]

You need saluting guns for Vancouver and any other large port city.

 

[Maxman1]

Just keep a few C3s as saluting guns and buy new ones for operational needs.

 

[Halifax Tar]

The concept of their central storage as well as full-time PYs for their maintainers should be part and parcel to any purchase of new guns and retention of the M777s. Like any hybrid organization there should be sufficient full-timers allocated for peace-time service and enough part-timers trained for war-time deployments.

The PY game is a tough one in the CAF but if push comes to shove sufficient peace-time maintainers need to come out of gunner PYs. (there are probably enough CWO and MWO positions doing ERE in Ottawa that could be converted to twice their number in the way of the Pte to MCpl wrench turners needed on the shop floor.

Ya I think we need to take a deep look at what is valuable work and what is busy work. And I think we need to truly put the institution first and not be scared to move billets to places they are more needed. This probably also means behing honest telling a lot people thanks, but your career stops here.

It's not just personnel though. Many of our current serviceability problems arise out of parts supplies for a variety of reasons including IP. That has to be fully corrected.

A small defence organization like the CAF should not be buying any weapon, platform or equipment that isnt in mass use already by an ally. We don't have the numbers our sway to compel industry or influence global supply chains. Hence why I will preach until the second coming that we should be buying American, almost always.

IMHO the CA has it backwards in many ways, but to me the majority of the Combat units should be ARES, while the majority of support roles being Regular Force.

But aren't there already more ARES combat arms units than Reg Force ? Or did you mean the staffing ?

 

[Kirkhill]

I'm sorry (not).

Why would I like to see local Caesars (or some such)?

Because the Caesars plus HVPs plus MRRs present as a viable Air Defence / CUAS / CRAM asset with an 80 km reach to deal with the unexpected.

And it provides a viable conventional artillery solution for launching short range HE in volume, long range Volcano type rounds and any new ramjet and uas type developments.

You could even practice your anti-tank drills.

 

[PrairieFella]

I'm sorry (not).

Why would I like to see local Caesars (or some such)?

Because the Caesars plus HVPs plus MRRs present as a viable Air Defence / CUAS / CRAM asset with an 80 km reach to deal with the unexpected.

And it provides a viable conventional artillery solution for launching short range HE in volume, long range Volcano type rounds and any new ramjet and uas type developments.

You could even practice your anti-tank drills.

I'm no arty expert here, but I'm pretty sure you can't use a conventional howitzer strapped to a flatbed as an anti aircraft cannon.

 

[quadrapiper]

The RCAF of today is not the RCAF of the 60s-90s. It is stretched to maintain our current operational commitments, it doesn't have the spare capacity to fly reservists across the country at the CAs whim for their training schedule. It's not impossible to fly people around, but it is expensive and time consuming... Do we expect our ResF folks to spend up to 6-12 paid hours travelling to get less than 16 hours of actual training in a weekend?

Perhaps that, and what I imagine is a similar great, gaping hole in the layers of depot/service/maintenance facilities and personnel who once existed, should be looked at with the same priority as revitalizing the artillery world? Seems like a critical piece.