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Nah, we're just going to give everyone raises and consider the Coast Guard as defense spending.
CAN Enhanced (Permanent?) Fwd Presence in Latvia
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60% of the time, it works every time.
MilEME09
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Might as well use the C3s as AT guns then
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Well they’ll get to Latvia faster than Spike… probably
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Interesting. For the C16 or M2?
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I think those are supposed to be the optic for the C6A1 but I'd have to double check that to be sure
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I’ll ask but haven’t seen one myself.
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Straight to Ukraine lol….
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I'll dive deeper next week, but found some documents indicating that the initial training was going to take place in Spring 2024 in Gagetown and then sent to Latvia. I found other correspondence from the DGLEPM Tech LO team from Jan/Feb 2025 indicating that it had arrived in theater recently.
In any case pretty small buy of 10 units as part of a minor cap project only for eFP it seems. Hopefully it proves to be great as the sites for the 84MM have always been lacking.
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The US Army has been running the Aimpoint FCS on their 84mm since 2019 I believe. 3 RCRs experience with it during an industry demo where Saab and Aimpoint brought the M4 and the FCS was eye opening. The capability was outstanding. That was about 6-7 years ago now I think.
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6 or 7 years ago. Glad to see we're not rushing the decision.
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Try a lot longer than that.
I recall going to a trade show in 1993 and seeing an FCS attached to a Carl G, then…
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Was that the CDC Canada solution? I seem to recall public rumours of the US Rangers, early US adopters of the CG84, playing with some Canadian built ballistic sights.
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I went to the Farnborough Air Show in 1984, I think it was 1984, and saw a milled down 84mm with a fancy sight on it as part of a weapons display.
It weighed about 12 pounds.
The next year we worked with some US Rangers who'd recently had it issued.
That winter I was skiing around in the mountains in arctic Norway with the good old 32+lb version hitting me in the back of the head...
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Interesting US Army data via GAO on the AT-4 and M72 (and future AA weapons - which turned in Javelin), as well as the pre Carl G attempt at a reloadable AAW.
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