Recent content by GR66

He still needs to finalize the "business case"??? Here, let me help:

Haligonian's Harem!

This I think is key. Major equipment takes longer to procure than troops take to train. This is where I differ somewhat with @FJAG on his restructuring plans. It appears to me that his objective is to maximize the number of fully-equipped, deployable units in the CA at the highest eschellon...

I think it's even worse than that. A chart for projected 2023 Defence spending shows that Canada alone among NATO allies sits in the "Quadrant of Shame" meeting neither our 2% of GDP spending on Defence OR our 20% of Defence expenditures on Equipment.

You're correct. Singapore is a single data point, but there are a lot of countries that are facing natural population decline that are all trying by various methods (with very limited apparent success) to slow or halt that decline. All I'm saying is that the social trend in developed countries...

Those policies are fine, but do they actually work? Singapore still has one of the lowest (and still declining) fertility rates in the World with 2023 projected to drop in 2023 to a record low of 0.97

Oh great...now Newfoundland will have TWO groups of people that don't speak English!

To be able to fully man the fleet you need much more than just the stated complement of the ships as many personnel will be in training, teaching, staff positions, on leave, unable to deploy, etc.

Oh...I was thinking Never paid a porn star for sex yet Does that make me a bad person?

Yeah....that would attract a lot of settlers!

More rapid adaptation by the Ukrainian military. Russians use aircraft to target Ukrainian USV's so Ukraine mounts heat seeking missiles on their USV's. That will certainly make Russian pilots think twice when engaging these targets...

Russia apparently having some issues with their North Korean-supplied munitions. https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-russian-launched-north-korean-missiles-explode-mid-air/

Well I guess it's their use of ISR assets that makes the IRS so good at tracking down taxpayers!