Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[ytz]

Because they have ~60 Chinooks, second largest Hook fleet after the US Army.

Exactly why I said we should buy more Chinooks. At minimum for a separate OTU and training support squadron in Gagetown. But preferably a second Chinook line squadron out west too.

 

[GR66]

Can they do all of that simultaneously? What happens if they get crowded all along the line? There is no need to push to Moscow. Moscow would get perturbed if they lost the Kola, Kaliningrad and St Petersburg. Concurrent loss of access to Crimea through Euro-Turkic domination of the Black Sea. The job for the Poles, with the Brits and the French, then becomes to hold in the centre - which is what a Schiltron (oops sorry, porcupine) is optimized for.

I wouldn't think they would do any of this simultaneously. Why would they choose to overextend themselves? And there will be no push to Moscow or St. Petersburg or the Kola Peninsula. Russia would definitely use nuclear weapons if there was any risk of their losing key portions of their territory or a general breakthrough of their front.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Yes.



No.

Simple and straight to the point, lol.

 

[dapaterson]

Exactly why I said we should buy more Chinooks. At minimum for a separate OTU and training support squadron in Gagetown. But preferably a second Chinook line squadron out west too.

So three sqns total plus OTU, so about 55 or so for the total fleet size?

 

[Good2Golf]

Exactly why I said we should buy more Chinooks. At minimum for a separate OTU and training support squadron in Gagetown. But preferably a second Chinook line squadron out west too.

Two squadrons is just fine, keeping the OTF at 450. Let 403 keeping its thing with the Griffons. Just because it’s the 146 OTU, doesn’t make it the be all to end all. All the training facilities and terrain needed is at Pet. Reactivate 447 in Namao with the additional Hooks.

 

[Kirkhill]

I’m just spit balling here.
I’d say the odds of Poland getting nucs has gone up substantially over the last month.
Same with Taiwan, South Korea and even the Baltics.

Ukraine?