Why are we worried? We all know that the Government will continue their policy to replace current equipment with half the numbers anyway. If the current parking lot can hold the current vehicles, it will surely hold half the number. Now should we be talking about buildings, then that is a different matter, but not too much so.
In 1994 the foundation was finally laid for a new Tank Hangar in Petawawa. Walking the site, I looked at the doorways in the foundation and knew even before the walls were started that the doors would be too small for the current tank that we had. Some Engineer/Contractor/Architect had decided to save a few thousand dollars per door and cut the dimensions down. When the Hangar was 'completed' (without the tracked overhead crane) they tried to fit a tank through one of the twenty doors. It fit with one inch between it and the frame of the door. Anyone who had dealt with heavy tracked equipment knows that this will not work. Now, there was also the question of the new 'add on armour' which made the tanks two to three feet wider. Needless to say, a new hangar had to be built to the "correct" dimensions. No taking shortcuts. No skimping on doors.
