Still no GBAD or PAXM for eFP Latvia, well after the UOR was drafted and almost a decade after initial plans were lade for broader procurement.
>The Canadian Army currently has three major regular force infantry regiments, a series of tank and artillery units as well as 185 reserve units located in 86 cities across the country.
This can be more accurately stated. The regular force contains 6 mechanized infantry units and 3 light infantry units. Armoured has shifted to cavalry and there is only one tank unit remaining in the entire Canadian Army. Those 185 reserve units are usually company-sized at best, so framing them as units is extremely generous, though accurate on paper. There are only 30 modern towed howitzers remaining across the Regular Force, reservists employ variants of WW2-era 105mm guns.
>Wright didn’t want to presuppose what the overhaul will look like in the end, but he said he didn’t want to cut units.
That is going to be extremely challenging if the desire is a substantial restructuring of the Canadian Army.
>With soldiers increasingly being deployed on domestic operations, a House of Commons committee studied whether deploying soldiers to fight wildfires and other disasters is an appropriate use of resources.
This has been warned about for years from within NDHQ and to be honest, resources on Op Lentus are extremely inefficiently used. Felt like more of a photo-op than an impact on the ground in my experience.
>”There are capabilities which NATO has assigned to us which we currently don’t have the ability to fulfil,” he said. “We do have division headquarters in Canada, but those divisions are — frankly — administrative and regional based.”
Those “divisions” are literally just the 2011 rebrand of the old administration regions. As an example, Land Force Western Area was rebranded to the 3rd Canadian Division.
>The army is still, however, struggling with a shortage of spare parts for the 15 Leopard 2A4 tanks attached to the brigade.
To the shock of absolutely no one. There’s a reason the Army has downsized to one tank unit and it isn’t for a lack of desire from armoured soldiers to drive tanks.
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You can restructure all you want but without adequate equipment it’s all just posturing without any real change
They need to bump the spending to 2% immediately , there are so many holes in the Canadian arsenal . For such a large country the military is a joke
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Still no GBAD or PAXM for eFP Latvia, well after the UOR was drafted and almost a decade after initial plans were lade for broader procurement.
>The Canadian Army currently has three major regular force infantry regiments, a series of tank and artillery units as well as 185 reserve units located in 86 cities across the country.
This can be more accurately stated. The regular force contains 6 mechanized infantry units and 3 light infantry units. Armoured has shifted to cavalry and there is only one tank unit remaining in the entire Canadian Army. Those 185 reserve units are usually company-sized at best, so framing them as units is extremely generous, though accurate on paper. There are only 30 modern towed howitzers remaining across the Regular Force, reservists employ variants of WW2-era 105mm guns.
>Wright didn’t want to presuppose what the overhaul will look like in the end, but he said he didn’t want to cut units.
That is going to be extremely challenging if the desire is a substantial restructuring of the Canadian Army.
>With soldiers increasingly being deployed on domestic operations, a House of Commons committee studied whether deploying soldiers to fight wildfires and other disasters is an appropriate use of resources.
This has been warned about for years from within NDHQ and to be honest, resources on Op Lentus are extremely inefficiently used. Felt like more of a photo-op than an impact on the ground in my experience.
>”There are capabilities which NATO has assigned to us which we currently don’t have the ability to fulfil,” he said. “We do have division headquarters in Canada, but those divisions are — frankly — administrative and regional based.”
Those “divisions” are literally just the 2011 rebrand of the old administration regions. As an example, Land Force Western Area was rebranded to the 3rd Canadian Division.
>The army is still, however, struggling with a shortage of spare parts for the 15 Leopard 2A4 tanks attached to the brigade.
To the shock of absolutely no one. There’s a reason the Army has downsized to one tank unit and it isn’t for a lack of desire from armoured soldiers to drive tanks.
!ping military
You can restructure all you want but without adequate equipment it’s all just posturing without any real change
They need to bump the spending to 2% immediately , there are so many holes in the Canadian arsenal . For such a large country the military is a joke