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

[daftandbarmy]

Trotting out the old time favourites ...

Billions more for defence, but Canada's military still faces an old budget squeeze​

Operational spending review comes as expenses grow for salaries, equipment​

The Canadian military is on the verge of another round of internal belt-tightening, despite an enormous influx of cash from the federal government, CBC News has learned.

It appears to be a combination of past and current budget initiatives colliding with the expectations and demands associated with the gush of defence spending.

The Department of National Defence has been told to focus its billions of extra dollars on priority areas, including the purchase of much-needed new combat equipment.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-spending-budget-cuts-carney-9.7375802

 

[PrairieFella]

Trotting out the old time favourites ...

Billions more for defence, but Canada's military still faces an old budget squeeze​

Operational spending review comes as expenses grow for salaries, equipment​

The Canadian military is on the verge of another round of internal belt-tightening, despite an enormous influx of cash from the federal government, CBC News has learned.

It appears to be a combination of past and current budget initiatives colliding with the expectations and demands associated with the gush of defence spending.

The Department of National Defence has been told to focus its billions of extra dollars on priority areas, including the purchase of much-needed new combat equipment.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-spending-budget-cuts-carney-9.7375802

That explains the major savings that reserve COs have been told to find. Seems like an oversight on the part of ADM(Fin).

 

[daftandbarmy]

That explains the major savings that reserve COs have been told to find. Seems like an oversight on the part of ADM(Fin).

The good old 'Immediately cut training to one weekend per month then get yelled at to spend a truck load of cash in March' ploy

 

[Brad Sallows]

"Major savings", is it.

What fraction of a Res F unit budget (the part under the control of a CO) is not Class A pay?

 

[Halifax Tar]

Some things never go out of fashion it seems.

 

[PrairieFella]

"Major savings", is it.

What fraction of a Res F unit budget (the part under the control of a CO) is not Class A pay?

Hey man, thats just what Ive heard. Exs and especially TDs are apparentlyon the chopping block. If that actually happens is a different story.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Hey man, thats just what Ive heard. Exs and especially TDs are apparentlyon the chopping block. If that actually happens is a different story.

There are definitely... "adjustments" happening to what people thought was able to be spent.

 

[PrairieFella]

There are definitely... "adjustments" happening to what people though was able to be spent.

Thanks Navy for your expensive-ass German seaman tubes.

 

[dapaterson]

That explains the major savings that reserve COs have been told to find. Seems like an oversight on the part of ADM(Fin).

I have many beefs with ADM Fin, but this sounds more like every L1S assuming unlimited money for their pet initiatives.

A CAF at 2% GDP would not require a lot of growth, just a lot of investment in equipping the force with sufficient depth for combat loss replacements and adequate sparing, plus actual ammunition holdings.

 

[lenaitch]

Thanks Navy for your expensive-ass German seaman sailor tubes.

To be current (and potentially less embarrassing if misspelled).

 

[PrairieFella]

To be current (and potentially less embarrassing if misspelled).

You better hope @dapaterson doesnt see that.

 

[childs56]

LOL they ran out of money that they said they had.
One thing for sure every few years they rinse and repeat the same things over and over. Then wonder why they can not retain Reservists.

How many courses are going to get cancelled? How many training nights exercises are going to get cancelled?
Or is this just an accounting error that will fix it self.

 

[HavokFour]

Domestically built UGVs.

Post in thread 'Political impacts of Ukraine war'

13 Oct 2026

Canadian built UGV's for Ukraine (and for Canada).

Dominion Dynamics and TENCORE partner to manufacture uncrewed ground vehicles in Canada for Ukraine, adding Canadian autonomy stack

Press Release + Noah Note

www.truenorthstrategicreview.ca

The UGV in question.

TerMIT 2.0

TerMIT 2.0 is a new-generation Ukrainian UGV designed based on real combat experience and in accordance with NATO and ISO 9001 standards.

tencore.com.ua

• HavokFour

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[Humphrey Bogart]

Let the Defence Grifting Games.... Begin!!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/port-belledune-explovies-factory-lawsuit-blackpoint-industries-9.7383252

 

[Underway]

Thanks Navy for your expensive-ass German seaman tubes.

 

[Underway]

They are starting to work on relocation of training equipment in prep for the new Jr's accommodations to replace Nelles Block finally. Navy Com training flagstaff moved to beside the RAS trainer last week and it looks like the lay down area will be basically over the outdoor sports field (to create what I can only assume is an always changing obstacle course for those endurance race tough mudder types).

* edit: At CFB Esquimalt, Naden side.

 

[Kirkhill]

"‘Have you got enough stuff that can make stuff?"


"Speed and agility are everything. Fitzgerald notes that what has allowed Ukraine to resist the Russian invaders is not one kind of exquisitely engineered drone, but rather a vast and constantly changing array of different models. “In Ukraine, it’s not one type of drone – and 10 billion of them,” he says. “It’s a zoo of different types of drones, at all classes and all stages. Then you need to be able to scale up.”"

The 33-year-old at the forefront of Britain’s defence revolution

As the West rearms, Alexander Fitzgerald’s AI-powered factories are churning out vital drone and jet parts at wartime speed

www.telegraph.co.uk

"To see the future of Britain’s defence industry, you have to visit a four-storey building found on what used to be a car park off Old Kent Road. This clean and functional edifice is the biggest new factory in London since the Second World War.

"A Union Flag overlooks the factory floor, where 12 machines are silently engaged in turning steel, aluminium and titanium into precision components for jet engines, drones, robots and much more."

....

"the lesson from Ukraine is that there are increasing – and critical – advantages for countries that can speedily produce an abundance of smaller and cheaper systems, such as drones, then constantly improve and redesign them, and turn out new and better models every few months."

....

"Isembard is expanding rapidly to meet pent-up demand. Fitzgerald opened his first factory last year, and today his company has 18 worldwide – eight in Britain, eight in America and one each in France and Germany."

....

"All but five of the existing plants are not owned by the company, but franchised to individual operators. The newest, in Swindon, took a mere 90 days to set up, and Fitzgerald aims to get this down to one or two weeks."

 

[Brad Sallows]

"the lesson from Ukraine is that there are increasing – and critical – advantages for countries that can speedily produce an abundance of smaller and cheaper systems, such as drones, then constantly improve and redesign them, and turn out new and better models every few months."

Allies (US and UK) had that advantage with respect to aircraft development and manufacture during WW II (not "smaller", but certainly at relatively more affordable costs and in abundance), and during the war improvement was almost entirely evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Everything old is new if we forget what we knew.

 

[Kirkhill]

Allies (US and UK) had that advantage with respect to aircraft development and manufacture during WW II (not "smaller", but certainly at relatively more affordable costs and in abundance), and during the war improvement was almost entirely evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Everything old is new if we forget what we knew.

From the same article

"His other inspiration is Lord Beaverbrook, the minister for aircraft production in 1940, who galvanised British industry into delivering 100 Spitfires and Hurricanes every week,"

100 Spitfires and Hurricanes a week.

That surprised me.