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Basically Russia on Ukraine and the bellicose posture of CCCP v 2.0 and the Trump 2.0 presidency and all of its flip flopping and lunacy. . . . and you've got to remember that the crap I've lived through goes back to CCCP 1.0 and the Cold War including being taught how to hide under a school...

The MAW came out in the late 60s and was really spread around quite a bit. We even had four of them in each gun battery for local defence. This was the mech rifle section org starting in 68. 🍻

The DCRA was a great feeder system for the Militia in the pre WW1 and after days. We pay too little attention to things like well controlled and moderately funded and supported civilian organizations like rifle associations, cadet movements to help grow reserves and subsequently regulars. Yup...

Couple of thoughts. For the light recce det. I see a lot of specialization but only a little cross qualification unlike in a SOF Det A where there are two of each comms, ops, engr, med, wpns so that a casualty can be sustained without loosing the capability. It's a little harder to accomplish...

Those would do as long as they are geographic areas on which units are superimposed. My thought goes along the line of - for example - a 30/70 brigade concentrated in Toronto with the geographic area extending out, let's say, a one hour commute. It gets a bit more complex when several units are...

This is a one hour + briefing by the Commanding Officer of the Latvia Multinational Artillery Battalion Group for Roto 2-24 to the RCAA. The briefing is quite detailed on both the MN Bde structure and particulalry in depth on the Arty Bn Gp. It's a little dry for the first few minutes, then gets...

That's not what I said at all. That may be true, but is contradictory to the message they are sending that they won't protect an ally that doesn't take realistic steps to defend themselves. My position is entirely along the line of let's take them up on that and show them we are ready willing...

Me too. I think it makes sense even if we aren't going to a fighting division (and I think we should). There are additional reasons why grouping all gunners (including reserve regiments) into one brigade. Some are made up to show specific arty taskings. (I'll make a small legend later tonight)...

I guess that depends on the approach you take and whether or not there is any truth in Trump's demands that NATO members take responsibility for their own defence. If our position is that we are taking the defence of North America seriously and putting our resources where our mouths are then it...

That captures the point. Simply put we've declined to hold nuclear weapons because our neighbour had them and considered our terrain important enough to provide deterrence through the threat of their weapons against any hostile party. That situation has changed. The current US administration...

That, to me, is a clear signal that something is wrong with the system. And this is the fundamental reason why. At the legislative level, the RegF is defined as: And the ResF as: A reservists who serves for 15 years (and don't take me wrong, I fully understand your motivation and...

Fox indicates 3 deceased with no indication about a 4th. :(

As @Fabius points out the full name for the vehicle is the 'Light Armoured Vehicle 6.0 - Observation Post Vehicle' variant or 'LAV-OPV' or simply 'OPV'. There is some literature (such as Wikipedia and Vanguard) that confuses the artillery OPV with the original two-version Coyote vehicles and...

I agree. The above structure is for the close support regiment that is a part of the 1st division's artillery brigade and designed to support an armoured brigade. The division, which is located primarily in central and western Canada, also has a divisional HIMARS regiment of three batteries of...

Leaving aside the North to get back to M777 replacement . . . Just to reiterate my viewpoint - do not replace the M777; augment and expand the artillery with more kit but retain the M777s. Anyway . . . I'm just reading Watling, on Ukraine and came across this: This more than ever reinforces...

I've been speculating - without any evidence whatsoever but the slowness of the recovery and the depth involved - that the vehicle may have hit a soft spot on one side on the edge of some deep underwater scour or washout or embankment and turned turtle. It looks like they may have been following...

It never ceases to amaze me that Sweden, a country that hasn't been in a war since 1814, officially declared its neutrality in 1939, has 1/4 of the population of Canada and a defence budget of a little more than 1/2 of Canada's (albeit 2.4% of its GDP) is able to maintain a viable defence...

Mods I think its past time to give this 'missiles in the North' its own thread. 🍻