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I've been grumbling for a few years, ever since some bright spark decided that artillery and engineers were no longer a combat arm but a combat support arm. This notwithstanding that artillery was the biggest killer on the battlefield during the Second World War. I presume that Gulf War 1 had a...

He's actually my MPP and a pretty good guy. I'm worried about what will come next. It'll be interesting to see how deep the gene pool is. 🍻

CBC only talks about another 40 ACSVs. One never knows with this lot. :unsure:

So... No change really. :unsure:

The problem that I see is that the combat and combat support arms have basically two jobs - train for operations and deploy on operations. The CSS, on the other hand have three - sustain the force, train for operations and deploy on operations. In order to do all three jobs, the CSS needs to...

One of the problems with all these precision strike videos is that we've lost sight of the fact that until only a few years ago area neutralization was a major function of artillery including attack helicopters and rocket launchers like the BM-30 series - especially in the Soviet/Russian model...

Pre 1947 they were these folks: and before that these guys: 🍻

Let me just address a few points from this. Counter battery fire in Afghanistan was very limited for much of the time. The problem wasn't target acquisition, it was confirming status of life in the target area so as to determine the risk of collateral damage and the resultant hold on returning...

The beret was not fully replaced. We gunners continued to use the blue beret with the red backer behind the badge well into the end of the 1960s. In my particular regiment's case recruits wore the beret until gun layer qualified at which time they received the red banded blue forage cap, the...

I consider it more as a challenge to industry. It clearly wouldn't be worthwhile for one of the major mass producers to retool a functioning plant for such low volume work, but I could see a small operation being set up to do just that. As long as there is a long term contract to produce...

It's not the only place. It is "currently" the best place. There are numerous theatres where an opponent could bring heavy armoured forces into play. Some with antiquated equipment others with much more modern. Heavy is a tool you need to keep in your tool box albeit it could very likely be...

Good video Much better gun drill and gun platform in general then many others we've seen videos of. Gun is operating with standard sights and not digital gun management. I find it interesting that these guns seem to not be as mobile as one would expect if there was good counter battery from...

I think that its only exceedingly unlikely that Russia will launch a conventional ground invasion if Russian leadership is utterly convinced by NATO conventional ground forces that any such move will lead to an absolute defeat for Russia. That in a nutshell is deterrence. Russia launched its...

What advantage is the Republican Senate caucus getting from this man's bullshit? Why hasn't he been taken behind the shed and given a smack upside the head? The US Officer corps is strongly Republican but this type of crap and, unless I'm missing something subtle, will lose them support in...

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Maybe the question is the way each of us uses the words. "Wish" is not something I would use as a term when discussing national policies. We may "wish" that we had a higher national profile in Europe commensurate with our economic status. We don't have the clout that should come with such...

You are putting forward an inherent contradiction which then flows through most of your arguments. Whether or not Canada needs an army is not dictated by geography. It is dictated by national policies. Geography may be a factor in what those national policies are. Simply put, if one of our...

I had to look that up. How do you even know these things? :unsure:

I'm assuming the look we're seeing here comes from some bad dressing of the modelling dummies rather than simply a bad cut and form. Except for the female uniform where little things like the lack of a cap badge and collar dogs, notwithstanding there are ribbons on her chest, makes me question...

Shit. There's no excuse for that. That's probably the decision of some committee somewhere who all wear black dress socks with sandals.