Recent content by FJAG

The air photo view with Google Earth is quite crappy but it looks like there is still a spur going into Shilo. 🍻

Halifax has them nearby. 🍻

I think people underestimate the ability of tracked vehicles to move strategically without trains. What "strategic" distances are actually involved? Are we landing our armies by ship in Malaga, Spain to travel to Latvia (3,200 kms)? Or are we moving prepositioned stocks from Selonia Latvia to...

It's not a naval gun but the same Rheinmetall 155mm L52 as in the PzH 2000. The turret is different and I can't speak as to the autoloader but believe its redesigned. In addition the system is fully automated and not partially automated like the PzH2000 which still has some crew in the turret...

That's true enough. My way of thinking is that if the regiment supporting a mech LAV brigade is also mounted on a LAV chassis then the overall brigade's maintenance burden is massively simplified by not having to maintain some Swedish or Czech heavy trucks and a variety of other support. By...

My complaint about the RCH-155 on Boxer to this point has been that it strikes me as too wobbly when firing and looks to me like it needs stabilizers and that notwithstanding the turret system has been around for well over a decade and no one has bought it. Germany promised some 36 of them to...

There's an extensive "horse culture" in the UK, especially amongst young ladies. It's not an accident that so many of them end up in the King's troop. The last time I looked their CO was a female major. 🍻

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The courts win until such time as the government gets it right. You probably don't recall Manitoba's former politician Vic Toews. When he moved to fed politics he became a justice minister under Harper. He had a penchant for law and order legislation and pushed through legislation that...

I don't want to minimize the power of Parliament, but you need to remember several points about our version of the Westminster parliamentary model. First is that power is divided by the constitution as between the federal and provincial governments. That puts a practical limit as to where each...

If I were to take a guess, it would be that the German government does not have enough of a sense of urgency about supplying these vehicles that it would give the job away to a foreign interloper in the place of one of its established (and probably unionized) home-town outfits. The article...

I do too although that bit about moving some production to Germany is worrying. 🍻

I tend to disagree with that. The film may have been that but I think in the book Heinlein was exploring some of his own feelings towards what he considered a weakening American society. While some left leaners have given it that interpretation, I tend to follow those who believe that Heinlein...

I'm not so sure. It depends on the details of the plan. I doubt that any military would be able to make constructive use of such an increase in funding in the short term. Plans need to be made and production ramped up accordingly. The UK currently spends about 2.1% of its GDP. The extra .4% is a...

I'm not sure what you mean by "Governor-General in Council." Under s 13 of the Constitution Act, the term is "Governor in Council" which effectively means the Governor General acting by and with the advice of the Privy Council of Canada which, practically speaking, means by and with the advice...