I can totally see a route in which Medcav is just a replacement which provides a universal tracked platform family of vehicles which will undoubtedly be restrained by “can it fit in a Globemaster”
Regarding RCN converting commercial vessels to fill gaps, in the late 80's the RCN did bring in 2 former oil rig supply vessels - HMCS Anticosti and HMCS Moresby - to serve as "auxiliary minesweepers" until the MCDV's started to come online. They also did some Reserve training, diving support and other work.
Rule two. Never read or listen to anything regarding DND or the CAF that Pugliese may have the demerity to actually think he knows enough to comment on military affairs with cognizance worthy of one’s attention. Case in point, his interview on Front Burner this past summer was flippant, derogatory, disdainful and disrespectful of DND, the CAF and especially its leadership, or as he said “Oh those generals”, describing their leadership and advice to the government as self serving and unrealistic. His concluding remark was to say, “What do they think the Russians are going to do? Fire a missile at Ottawa? Ha, Ha, Ha!” I’m sure there were few if any Ukrainians who thought that Russia would invade and that they would be subject to being showered with thousands upon thousands of drones and missiles. I had given up on his column years before that, but that time, he crossed the line as far as I was concerned.
My issue with Pugliese is he is a muckraker. He is just itching to find something negative that he can sensationalize into a scandal. Then he flogs that dead horse in a bunch of subsequent articles - "cut and paste". In a sense if you've read one of his articles you've read them all.
On the topic of retention, 1 thing we need to improve of is better RegF to ResF retention. Right now, not only is it not advantageous for a RegF member to who wants/needs to get out of the RegF to stay on part time in the Reserves... But many benefits like pension or education benefits are effectively nullified by transfer to the Reserves. The folks I know that have done so have all done it at personnal financial cost.
Gonna have to disagree on the VLS requirements, 32 should be a bare minimum on a frigate or corvette but a ship designed to integrate extended area air defense (not just self defense) into its mandate is going to require much larger magazines to deal with current and future saturation attacks. 64 sounds like a more reasonable load out of mk-41 VLS for that role.
I can totally see a route in which Medcav is just a replacement which provides a universal tracked platform family of vehicles which will undoubtedly be restrained by “can it fit in a Globemaster”
You're gonna laugh when it ends up being C-130 required.
Another week of excellent questions and answers!
Regarding RCN converting commercial vessels to fill gaps, in the late 80's the RCN did bring in 2 former oil rig supply vessels - HMCS Anticosti and HMCS Moresby - to serve as "auxiliary minesweepers" until the MCDV's started to come online. They also did some Reserve training, diving support and other work.
We actually have a very long history of it!
The Prince-class comes to mind. We did it with various yachts during WW1 with HMCS Stadacona, HMCS Tuna, HMCS Grilse and HMCS Hochelaga to name a few.
Rule two. Never read or listen to anything regarding DND or the CAF that Pugliese may have the demerity to actually think he knows enough to comment on military affairs with cognizance worthy of one’s attention. Case in point, his interview on Front Burner this past summer was flippant, derogatory, disdainful and disrespectful of DND, the CAF and especially its leadership, or as he said “Oh those generals”, describing their leadership and advice to the government as self serving and unrealistic. His concluding remark was to say, “What do they think the Russians are going to do? Fire a missile at Ottawa? Ha, Ha, Ha!” I’m sure there were few if any Ukrainians who thought that Russia would invade and that they would be subject to being showered with thousands upon thousands of drones and missiles. I had given up on his column years before that, but that time, he crossed the line as far as I was concerned.
My issue with Pugliese is he is a muckraker. He is just itching to find something negative that he can sensationalize into a scandal. Then he flogs that dead horse in a bunch of subsequent articles - "cut and paste". In a sense if you've read one of his articles you've read them all.
On the topic of retention, 1 thing we need to improve of is better RegF to ResF retention. Right now, not only is it not advantageous for a RegF member to who wants/needs to get out of the RegF to stay on part time in the Reserves... But many benefits like pension or education benefits are effectively nullified by transfer to the Reserves. The folks I know that have done so have all done it at personnal financial cost.
It need not be actively disincentivized.
Gonna have to disagree on the VLS requirements, 32 should be a bare minimum on a frigate or corvette but a ship designed to integrate extended area air defense (not just self defense) into its mandate is going to require much larger magazines to deal with current and future saturation attacks. 64 sounds like a more reasonable load out of mk-41 VLS for that role.
Q11. Didn't Eurofighter and Dassault 'voluntarily withdraw' from FFCP?
Officially yes