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

[Cloud Cover]

I think this is better positioned in this thread than the Ukraine thread.

It is glorious and I hope to hell we are paying attention.

 

[Baz]

I think this is better positioned in this thread than the Ukraine thread.

It is glorious and I hope to hell we are paying attention.

You know who could make a shit ton of money right now. Somebody who could produce a cheap drone with the sole purpose of killing drones.

I’ve been on two of the three sides of the military procurement (operator and supplier, but not procurer), and agree with most of his points. But we should take the right lessons, and I think one of them is the spiral is tightening, not that the current reality is the end state.

 

[HavokFour]

I think this is better positioned in this thread than the Ukraine thread.

It is glorious and I hope to hell we are paying attention.

Apparently Rheinmetall has completely forgotten that during the last massive war (hint: angry failed artist), women played a vital role while the men were away in Europe and Asia fighting. Those housewives put out some insane numbers back then too.

Mr. Yakovenko is spitting fire.

 

[Cloud Cover]

You know who could make a shit ton of money right now. Somebody who could produce a cheap drone with the sole purpose of killing drones.

I’ve been on two of the three sides of the military procurement (operator and supplier, but not procurer), and agree with most of his points. But we should take the right lessons, and I think one of them is the spiral is tightening, not that the current reality is the end state.

True.
And the big one for me: “… we iterate weekly”. You can’t even get on someone’s calendar in Canada within 4 weeks.

Edit: image shamelessly copied from @grandparoy2 over on the X app..

 

[Furniture]

And what do you do when that highly trained kit gets damaged or destroyed and a new widget takes 6 months to produce? A UGV can protect a lot of ground but if it gets destroyed and you dont have a replacement, you then need infantry. We as a military cannot use tech as a crutch

What are you protecting in Canada with a UGV? The context of my argument was @Kirkhill's suggestion that we could recruit 500,000 people for employment within in Canada.

Are the Red Hordes going to pour across the arctic into Yukon, NWT, or Nunavut?

We need better ISR, more aircraft, ships, GBAD, etc.... All high tech, low personnel count things. We don't need regiments of motorized infantry sitting around waiting for a job to do inside the country.

 

[McG]

We do have a neighbour who has recently threatened our sovereignty and been a little reckless in wielding military power.

 

[GR66]

We do have a neighbour who has recently threatened our sovereignty and been a little reckless in wielding military power.

Realistically if that's the threat that we are wanting to be designing our military to defend against, then a domestic nuclear deterrent is really the only logical option. We would go bankrupt trying to build a conventional force strong enough to defeat a US invasion.