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I like to write threads with funny gifs about Canadian Armed Forces culture, doctrine, and management issues - mostly late at night to avoid sleeping. This is a meta 🧵 of 🧵:
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Mid-Career Army Officer
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Mid-Career Army Officer
@MidOfficer
🇨🇦 Army Officer. Carl Gustav enthusiast. Mostly jokes but some thoughts about doctrine, leadership, culture, & tech. All views my own, especially the jokes.
Canada Katılım Ekim 2021
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@GrandpaRoy2 Well the good news is that at least we've advanced from moribund to sclerotic!
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It’s good to see the Canadian-led Multinational Brigade in Latvia exercising with UGVs operated by experienced Ukrainian soldiers.
Unfortunately, the sclerotic Canadian procurement system will likely take years to actually acquire any.
Roy🇨🇦@GrandpaRoy2
The Canadian battle group in Latvia has no FPVs or Mavics. They have little situational awareness or lethal range, and would be destroyed by a flood of Russian drones without seeing a Russian soldier.
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@JessieTweeting I was about to joke that we should shoot them at DJI drones but apparently that that is literally the point...
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@m_Janelle @brihard Agreed. At this point ATGMR should just go with the Mk 4 and FPV drone mix.
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@MidOfficer @brihard @Trotes936897 @TrentTelenko Time to buy Carl G Mk 4 with FCS-13 optics, so that we can effectively & rapidly punch tanks in the face with FFV758 at 1000m?
Between this & Loitering munitions, I think ATGMs are actually going to be squeezed into a narrow niche...
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SAAB has revealed its new round for Carl Gustaf, the HEAT 758, a Heat-Tandem round with up to 700mm of penetration behind ERA.
According to Michael Höglund, head of Saab’s business unit Ground Combat:
“This round is our response of developments of the battlefield where reactive explosive armour has become a major problem for regular munitions trying to defeat armoured vehicles. HEAT 758 is an example of how Saab continues to generate ever more capable products while decreasing the armoured vehicle threat to the operator,”
The new round has already been ordered by an anonymous client and is in production.
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@FfWorthington @NoahGairn I mean hitting rotation speed on the runway, lifting the nose, and immediately putting it back down counts, right?
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@MidOfficer @NoahGairn Taking off is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
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More great news for Canada!
Canada has been selected to host the new multinational Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, a major step in strengthening our defence partnerships, supporting innovation, and building a more secure future with our allies.
#OakvilleWest
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Funny, big hand little map always meant the bigger picture. Two up which helped us in our MA in order to accomplish our Comd intent and ME.
And it’s good idea fairy.
ValourLegal@ValourLegal
“If we are ever to have a combat focused appropriately sized military that is lethal, mobile & affordable, we need to have a Minister of National Defence who has served & was never a GOFO & who has the stones to fire all of the existing … Officers & then interview some of them to see if they can be salvaged or if they were enthusiastically part of the problem that created the current mess.”
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@HMFOIHF So your argument is that a towed howitzer is useless in a war, and thus it's only good use is avalanche control.
But at the same time, shooting that useless howitzer from a fixed position at a mountain is good training?
Good training for what then?
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This is dumb
It's literally all the towed gun ia good for now a days, and its a great training experience.
More canaduh
Mid-Career Army Officer@MidOfficer
Listen, don't pretend that if your neighbor asked you to help them out and shovel their driveway every winter since 1961, you wouldn't eventually get fed up and tell them to buy their own damn snowblower.
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@NoahGairn Hey come on, that plane could easily exist with that loadout. It would just have to only fly with a crew of one pilot and an egg salad sandwich, and it would have an operational range of taking off and landing immediately.
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@AlexRMcColl @dmacpher Only if they do it on the move!
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@MidOfficer @dmacpher As a Western Canadian, I think it’s valuable to have the CAF continue this mission. Even if most of that value is just good press having the CAF active in our communities. That said, I also agree the 105 is too old, so I propose a compromise:
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Listen, don't pretend that if your neighbor asked you to help them out and shovel their driveway every winter since 1961, you wouldn't eventually get fed up and tell them to buy their own damn snowblower.
Ottawa Citizen@OttawaCitizen
Canada’s top general says military won't renew program to prevent avalanches on Trans-Canada Highway ottawacitizen.com/public-service…
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@CDNPolicyHawk @Ollietbow Exactly - it's Parks Canada permanently offloading their role to the military.
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@Ollietbow The neighbour in this case isn't "fellow Canadians" writ large, it's the gov't department(s) who actually has responsibility for keeping people and infrastructure safe from these avalanches day-to-day.
It's somewhat glib. But you're reading something into it that isn't there.
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This is the most cringe post from a Canadian military officer when speaking about his fellow Canadians.
We're "entitled neighbors". Not about resources, not apologizing for not fulfilling a nearly 70 year public duty, but framing it like fellow Canadians are the burden.
Complete disregard for the duties of public service, to their neighbors, resorting to reddit tier cringe.
God help us for where this will lead the country.
Mid-Career Army Officer@MidOfficer
Listen, don't pretend that if your neighbor asked you to help them out and shovel their driveway every winter since 1961, you wouldn't eventually get fed up and tell them to buy their own damn snowblower.
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@Lucvend @CavalryCanuck @Dean_Woermer That's kind of the catch. Reservists are supposed to be students or have civilian jobs.
Reservists who can routinely drop everything and take a 3 or 6 month contract outside of wartime really aren't supposed to exist. That's regular force.
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@Dean_Woermer @CavalryCanuck I worked at Army HQ when this started to come up. The reserves is supposed to be a part time organization, but this requires 6 months a year of full time service, limiting availability. We're also deploying a lot of those reservists who are available to Latvia as well.
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@CavalryCanuck The gunners are now leading a multinational artillery regiment in Latvia, supporting a giant expansion of their trade, & preparing to onboard HIMARS and multiple different air defence and counter-drone systems.
It was a good go but they don't have people to spare for those now.
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@MidOfficer I feel like theirs some training/experience value here that may be lost. I haven’t served with any gunners that partook in this operation, but I can only imagine it was a “Gucci gig.” We need more of that, not less.
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@dmacpher Legitimately the problem is the 105 is end of life and 155mm is too big, as I understand it.
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@ColbyBadhwar I'm not in the loop on that, but I suspect that our automotive sector might be better positioned to offer this anyways:
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NOAH@NoahGairn
More looks at the Wheeled K9.
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@MidOfficer Has the Army changed their SPH requirements? Tracked platforms were essentially non-compliant. Or is Hanwha hoping that we will?
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@MidOfficer That would require Sig’s marketing team to understand context and humor.
It’d be way too easy for them to unintentionally fire off a statement with disastrous consequences.
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Sig Sauer's marketing team has the opportunity to make the funniest slogan of all time.
7NEWS Queensland@7NewsBrisbane
Every handgun in the Queensland Police Service is being recalled for urgent testing, after at least three misfired like a fully automatic weapon. The critical fault could trigger a replacement of all 15,000 glocks.
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