Recent content by Colin Parkinson

Without that support you will not have serviceable vehicles. So I will argue that support personal, repair equipment and a reliable spare parts system is as important to this debate as are the sensors and weapons the vehicles should have.

Never underestimate the abilty of the people you want to cut to be able to dodge the axe. In their mind their whole job is to stay employed and are good at it. The frontliners are to busy doing their job to see the axe.

Part of the current bloat was the hamfisted way the CPC did "Workforce adjustment" We lost our only GIS tech and they left us with another employee that was pure deadweight. That's only one example. A lot of corporate knowledge went out the door and where snatched up by firms that wanted that...

You need vehicles that we can afford in quantity, that are easily maintained and fixed, thanks to our weak support system. A support system that is extremely weak in supporting the Reserves. We actually need to reduce the number bayonets to bolster our supporting arms and I don't see the Army...

A interesting thought about the protests

Canada owes the inception of it's armour force to the US "scrapping" 300+ 6 ton tanks.

Hmm who is paying the piper......

Article in the CDR says Roshel has delivered over a 1,000 vehicles to Ukraine and can currently make 5 a day. They mention significant changes to the first generation to current and more changes as they learn from the conflict. They are also working on a 8x8.

Put them downhill of a Lake Nyos in Africa and generate a "gas burp", make the world a better place.

I could spend all day looking at them!!

Speaking of ship models you might like this Facebook

Well might be useful to out source UK Muslim problem to the Hindu/Sikhs. They seem to have figured out how to deal with it in a "Culturally sensitive manner"

Well here is a F35 that might fit our budget.

Be nice if they kill each other, painfully.

Electrical problem at the dock ate 60lbs of zinc in 3 months and then started eating at the hull of a steel boat. The shipyard here uses a electric cathode under the drydocks to protect them.