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I am not sure that recruiting and retention really factor? I think that certain weapons should be permanently distributed at a fairly low level. Infantry platoons and companies should be able to destroy small numbers of enemy tanks without requiring assistance from higher. I think that...

Good questions/observations. We have been locked into the FG of single tank squadrons for MR since, well, BTE 03 I suppose! We had two tank squadrons in that exercise. The understanding in the 2010s was that a war would likely involve a surge, so the thought was there that the CA would...

There are things like War Stocks (which are limited), but our ability to simply replace all of our tanks in our inventory is indeed limited. This is true for most major items including ships and aircraft. For context, towards the end of the Cold War we had all but one squadron of Leopards in...

Are you asking about the eFP Bde or a CMBG in a hypothetical conflict? The former is not my tea to spill here. If its about doctrine then B-GL-321 Brigade Tactics (issued 2017) has an Armoured Regiment in it. The Doctrine Note I have referred to is part of the rewrite of The Armoured...

All of them. Attack Helicopters are found in US Heavy and Light divisions. They also have impressive logistical tails and require quite a bit of shipping to deploy. I think its a bad practice to rely on AHs for anti-tank work. They are great to layer-over an existing anti-armour plan and can...

I am not a project guy, but I would expect a ten-year horizon for any vehicle that is not "off the shelf" or "used." Used is getting hard to come by these days... If a "medium" AFV can be produced on the LAV 6 chassis (say - a turret with a 90mm cannon with additional protection instead of...

Well, we have fifteen Leopard 2A4Ms forward deployed to eFP Latvia now. This was no mean feat - well done to those who did (and are still doing) the work to make that happen. The Canadian Army now has a world-class capability deployed to a theatre for which it was truly designed. We tend to...

The flow of equipment for the expanded eFP is part of STDE as is the RIP of the eFP BG. There are other components as well. The Light Battalion piece won't be until later in the year - not under the STDE umbrella.

You were talking about how hard it would be to get tanks to theatre. I merely pointed out that we already did it. The tanks are there now. And we've done it before. I sailed on TRIDENT JUNCTURE. I am a little proud of our strat movers - they've helped me a couple of times with the movement of...

Sure, which is the whole point of STEADFAST DEFENDER.

Except Leopards are not TAPVs. We use our Leopard as Leopards. This doesn't mean we drive around without a care in the world asking to get shot. Tanks move tactically, bounding from feature to feature using covered approaches supported by other tanks. We use turret downs, hulldowns etc. Now...

This may come as a shock, but we just moved a Leopard Sqn to Europe by sea. We also moved the initial eFP BG by sea. We moved a CMBG HQ, Svc Bn, Light Battalion and associated support to Norway in 2018 by sea from near Valcartier. We are part of STEADFAST DEFENDER 24 this spring which...

A non-sensical discussion. Is everyone carrying 3 Javelin? Now, in a LSCO scenario I imagine that it you asked an infantry Company Commander if he would rather have 3 x MGS or one Javelin per Section then I expect he would take the Javelin. Every time. MGS is dead anyway. But war is not a...

We have 15 Leopard 2A4M in Europe right now.

That's not really how it works. Its not about "targets served." What can kill or suppress the soldier with the Javelin? How does that soldier with a Javelin support an assault? Or an advance? Or conduct counter-moves? Tanks have been killable by relatively cheap systems since they entered...

All RCAC units will be "Armoured Cavalry. " How a CMBG Comd chooses to group his forces for a given task will likely look similar to today. If a CMBG Comd has three Heavy Sqns with Leopard 2s then I anticipate he will use them pretty much like tank squadrons. A rose by any other name would smell...

I am just saying that I do not speak for the RCAC and that some of my colleagues may well have differing professional opinions from me. It will be hard to convince me, though, that an M10 is a better tank than a Leopard C2. I am not an equipment project guy, but acquisition is not like a Real...

I joined the ARes in London in 1989. There was something called "Strike Company", which I thought was a WWF tag-team but was actually a grouping of Militia folks from a number of units around London that tried to train on AVGP provided by 1 RCR. They were not part of 1 RCR - but were rather...

An interesting thought exercise. I think I would only want the three fleets if the light and medium were the same chassis with the same powertrain etc. Which might be a non-starter. Would I take nine squadrons of M10s instead of three squadrons of Leo2s and six squadrons of LAV Recce/LRSS? I...

I think there is something to be said for rolling any ARes units into Reg F units that are geo-located with them.