Again semantics. Organize the AD Batteries however you wish. Depth is required for sustainment in the face of combat losses. Two batteries is not depth.
I agree I’m just pointing out the specific example you used is wrong, and we have no depth across the CAF. We have the regular army, and once that’s destroyed the Army is essentially without combat power (ie it has no fires, no armour, ect), so making AD the hill to die on for that is a bit absurd. We need depth everywhere but we aren’t going to fund that.
I don't consider the possibility of an enemy preemptively attempting to cripple our strategic airlift or ASW assets in the opening stages of a conflict as fantasy. The cost benefit of a small team using short range FPVs to take out transport, AAR and/or MPA assets would be huge.
I’m not suggesting a premptive strike isn’t a possibility, I’m merely looking at the realities of FPV employment, and suggesting that it’s an unlikely first strike system. If some one wanted to sabotage our strategic assets that would be fairly low on the list of options. Getting hired as a base cleaner and throwing a grenade seems more likely.
Absolutely our airfields should have permanent CUAS capabilities to deal with potential drone incursions into their airspace and we should have the assets available to beef up the capability in times of increased threat. These assets should also be available for domestic and foreign deployment in other threat environments as well.
Cool what’s your mitigation plan for a CIWS killing a bird and lobbing 15000 rounds into down town Winnipeg ?
That's more an argument to change the structure rather than ignore the capability requirement.
Capability drives structure drive requirements. They’re linked.
No argument that there is success bias and also that counter-measures will improve to meet the threats, however our allies seem to be moving much faster at adopting both their own unmanned technologies and their counter-measures that we are. Do we know something they don't?
Don’t disagree that our Allies are moving faster, but I don’t see anyone making 1/4 of their combat formations AD either.
@FJAG concur that it can be done, my point was more that blended Reg / Res AD batteries are not a solution if we’re truly worried about Russians flying to Canada, getting their hands on some RPG 7 rounds (or buying a 3D printer and the necessary explosives), buying drones, fitting those drones with fused RPG rounds, moving into position, and flying a bomb onto a base they can walk onto.