Recent content by FJAG

@Kirkhill has already answered that. Remember that a 120mm shell weighs around 30 lbs and the 155mm around 93 lbs (they vary by type of projectile but that's close enough for government work.) So it's not only three times the weight of Composite B but also three times the weight of metal...

If they're looking for mass of fire, S Korea has over 2,000 towed M101 105 mm howitzers and almost a thousand towed M114 155s which are mostly in storage or allocated to the reserves. Venerable kit that's super easy to maintain and use. 🍻

We'll run out of equipment and armaments long before we run out of people. :unsure:

I've always thought that our military approach to proxy/COIN operations used the least developed and armed force in the world as the model to base on thus divesting ourselves of most modern weapon systems that would remain relevant and necessary for even a modestly armed country. It did not...

That's bloody brilliant. You can see the crop duster heritage in the air frame. Cost effective, highly manoeuvrable and easy to maintain is what they basically are. Not up to the A-10 capability but a good enough payload to fit nicely into Spec Ops. 🍻

Take this article - change UK to Canada and BAOR to 4 CMBG and Bob's your uncle: Is the British Army Really a 'Reference Army'? Arguably No, It Is Not... 😖

Not necessarily. We operate in Arty tactical groups now where we have one FSCC (run by the Battery comd and an FSCCO) and usually three FOO/JTAC teams (give or take - in Afghanistan we sometimes had four FOO/JTAC teams - these days we're sometimes down to two). There are three such tactical...

I find these kind of situations puzzling. Back in the early 1990s I attended a Humanitarian Law course in San Remo Italy and one of the people on the course with us was a Russian infantry major with experience in Afghanistan (their Afghanistan mission; not ours). He was very knowledgeable on...

It's not so much that the Army is not sure what it wants to be - it's that its trying to be everything at once. This from "Advancing with Purpose": Ignoring for a moment the meaningless and unfulfilled drivel about being "network-enabled" it is clear that what the CA wants to be is everything...

I found your article interesting especially from the point of view that we seem to be experimenting with possible solutions in an ad hoc manner. It interests me in that we continue to rely on the ingenuity and "make it work" attitude of our soldiers and junior officers rather than any deliberate...

Lord, I can still remember those shows on TV. 🍻

Trudeau's! 🍻

You might be able to pull a construction company off another job, but having a cargo vessel on five days NTM when its somewhere between Rangoon and Mandalay is not feasible regardless of how the contract is written. Quite frankly very few construction companies would be able to meet a 3 day NTM...

Started my career going to and from one of those downtown armouries in Toronto from Scarborough using a bus, a streetcar, a subway and another street car each way in my uniform sitting upright and making sure my battledress blanco'd belt and white lanyard didn't touch the seat and thereby turn...

Or read newspaper articles during the American Civil War. The party politics were vicious. 🍻