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Kyle

@rfdctr

Engineering things, academic (PhD), veteran, likes dogs 🇨🇦

Ottawa, Ontario เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2013
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@MidOfficer So $10k per CMAR + spares, etc may be justified, but the only way to know is for the GoC to actually provide just a few details on what they’re buying. Because all that’s out there now are the numbers $307M and 30k rifles.
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@MidOfficer This one, hard to tell as the $307M only covers three years (assuming a separate ISS contract). If I remember correctly, the Browning replacement got delayed after the initial negotiations due to licensing issues. I suspect a substantial portion of this project is paying for IP
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Mid-Career Army Officer
Mid-Career Army Officer@MidOfficer·
I am once again begging people not to simply divide the contract value by the quantity and assuming that's the unit cost. 20-40% of any military contract is typically in-service support, spare parts, accessories, training, all necessary additional spending above item cost.
National Newswatch@natnewswatch

Canada spending $307M to buy new modular army rifles from Colt nationalnewswatch.com/2026/03/19/can… #nationlnewswatch via @natnewswatch

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Kyle@rfdctr·
@CDNPolicyHawk There’s a lot we don’t know, but the US Army has historically paid ~$1k/M16. CMAR is ~$10k/unit (+ spares). CMAR doesn’t have the economies of scale of the M4/16, so why the cost? My guess is IP and a non-competitive process.
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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk
🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
@rfdctr I could see there being some new tooling necessary, and some legacy IP. But, with admittedly limited knowledge of the industry, that breakdown seems pretty unreasonable to me.
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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk
🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
The CAF needs new rifles, and I'm glad to see a contract awarded. But at a time when we're supposed be building up the Canadian defence sector, I have questions about the disconnect between how large this contract is vs how little economic activity its claimed it will create. 1/
National Defence@NationalDefence

Canada is modernizing the @CanadianForces. The Defence Investment Agency awarded a contract to Colt Canada to acquire up to 65,402 modern rifles under the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle initiative. Learn more: canada.ca/en/defence-inv…

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Kyle@rfdctr·
@CDNPolicyHawk I’m guessing a lot of that cost is 1) licensing the IP and 2) CNC machines and tooling procured outside Canada. 3 years / 30 000 rifles = 40 rifles per work day. So this is hardly a high volume manufacturing plant with a large work force.
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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk
🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
The release states that the value of just phase one of this project is $307m over 3 years. But it also says that the contract will (only) generate $10m annually to Canada’s GDP over the next 5 years. Those numbers don't make sense if the work is happening in Canada. 2/
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Kyle@rfdctr·
@NoahGairn Replacing Sapphire is absurdly overdue. The satellite was launched in 2013 (coming in 10% under budget), and it’s likely to fall out of the sky before a replacement is launched. Notably, it’s a unique capability, with no similar capacity in NATO.
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ChrisO_wiki@ChrisO_wiki·
1/ Russia is having increasing problems using drones in the Kherson area, due to improved Ukrainian electronic warfare and drone strikes against Russian forces. Ukraine is reported to have devised an ingenious approach to deploy fibre-optic drones across the Dnipro river. ⬇️
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Kyle@rfdctr·
@SNAFU_Sara Prior to deploying to Afghanistan, every unit and its rear party ran through a mass casualty event Ex. Essentially trying to find out the gaps in information and process for what happens when one occurs. I’d recommend it for any unit deploying, even in peacetime.
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SNAFU@SNAFU_Sara·
I’m going to say something I could be entirely wrong on. But in my experience on the Guard side, S1 doesn’t get an opportunity to train on mass casualty events. And a lot of time DoD systems with the soldier info are slow, buggy, wrong information, if they even work at all or if we even have internet. At one point as a TNCO it got so bad I had our soldiers fill out a basic soldier data paper form I’d take to the field. I’m wondering if that’s some of the delay in releasing numbers.
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Kyle@rfdctr·
@RadioFreeTom The only thing I remember from a convocation speech a description of training as a conditioned response to familiar circumstances. In contrast the goal of education is to create a logical response to unfamiliar circumstances.
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Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom·
You won't learn how to take hills. But you will learn how to formulate plans and help create strategies with civilians in the federal government - even with Hill staffers like I once was. Hegseth just hates the whole idea because it intimidates him as the terminal O-4 he is. /3
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Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom·
The responses to this post remind me of the guy who said to one of my colleagues that his lecture on Athens was one of the best he'd ever heard, but it "didn't teach him squat about how to take that hill." That's not what senior war colleges do. That's training. /1
Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom

I hope the first thing this task force does is inform Pete Hegseth about what happens in the war colleges he's never attended - or apparently, even visited - because all this stuff isn't it. He has no idea what he's talking about here, but that's no surprise.

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Kyle@rfdctr·
@NoahGairn I wish them luck, but the US CCA program is about US$9B, and Ghost Bat is AUD$2.4B. Those programs also build upon existing company technology.
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Kyle@rfdctr·
@lauriewired Countermeasures are an area human brains just aren’t speedy enough for. Closing speeds can reach > 1 km/s, while a human has to ID the missile, determine the correct tactic, and perform it. All that in 10-20 seconds.
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LaurieWired@lauriewired·
Ignoring other countermeasures, research consistently shows the optimal evasion is a two part “bang-bang” structure. A long, sustained G barrel roll to deplete missile energy, followed by a last-second maximum effort reversal. Optimal timing is…milliseconds.
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LaurieWired@lauriewired·
I’ve always wondered; could a software algorithm (ML or otherwise) evade an incoming missile better than a human pilot? Perhaps even at the expense of a blackout. *You* might be able to only handle 9G…but what if the airframe can take 12? …it (sorta) exists.
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Giorgi Revishvili
Giorgi Revishvili@revishvilig·
Very interesting points by General Oleksandr Pivnenko, Commander of Ukraine’s National Guard: All wars eventually come to an end. And this war will end as well — but it will end through a political decision. 1/ 8
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Kyle@rfdctr·
@CDNPolicyHawk @NoahGairn One of the major reasons AUKUS exists is the French did a terrible job managing the relationship. The French President was quoted bragging about all the jobs to be created in France. Meanwhile Naval Group kept backing away from industrial commitments, while costs exploded.
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@NoahGairn Those are the LAV6s getting donated?!!! I’m genuinely curious WTF happened to that seemingly straightforward project to end up like this.
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NOAH@NoahGairn·
Funny that right after the 66 LRSS get banished to the fuckin' shadow realm that 66 LAV get donated to Ukraine.
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@NoahGairn I know versions have been floating around industry for a bit. So I’m surprised a copy didn’t make it to the hands of reporters earlier.
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NOAH@NoahGairn·
Homies out here revealing like half the strategy and now I dont know if they just forgot to tell me they lifted the embargo because I got like 6000 words on this shit ready to go.
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Kyle@rfdctr·
@NormOrnstein Dennis Hastert spent 15 months in jail for his hush money conspiracy to cover up molesting children. So the bar for worst speaker is pretty high.
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Norman Ornstein
Norman Ornstein@NormOrnstein·
Mike Johnson is a disgusting monster and the worst speaker of the house ever. Democrats need to hold firm on this no matter how long this agency is shut down.
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman

Johnson has just affirmatively said Congress cannot add new warrant requirements for federal immigration agents. So he has said that he will not mandate officers take masks off and is opposed to warrants for federal officers. Those are two of the three dem demands. The DHS CR, if passed today, expires in 10 days. Sounds like a deal is miles away.

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Kyle@rfdctr·
@NoahGairn We’re almost there now. For DDG/FFG they only have 6 x 45s and 7 x 23s. I’m curious about the $$$, but I’d guess their carriers and SSNs eat a disproportionate amount of the RN’s budget, leaving an anemic surface fleet.
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Air-Power | MIL-STD
Air-Power | MIL-STD@AirPowerNEW1·
"Another element in the US Air Force’s plans for long-range operations, essential for Asia-Pacific deterrence, may have emerged from under cover of secrecy..the evidence adds up to an electromagnetic attack aircraft—like the Boeing EA-18G Growler but highly stealthy and uncrewed"
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ASPI@ASPI_org

We’ve probably just seen the USAF’s secret electromagnetic attacker | @ValkStrategy | bit.ly/4a1V46I

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Kyle@rfdctr·
@pbontoast1 I’m biased from my time at MDA, but the radar on the CP-140 is far more capable than the P-8’s. It’s literally a step back a generation from an AESA to mechanically scanned.
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Tinnitis Emeritus
Tinnitis Emeritus@pbontoast1·
Timeline cleanse It's of course a CP140 Aurora. We took it to the Arctic for cold weather testing of AIMP Block 1. This pic is in Yellowknife. The fleet will be retired after most aircraft reached Block 4 of the modernization But what's special about this particular aircraft?
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