“CAF – Canadian Armed Forces”

As China explores the Arctic, Canada’s military is preparing for confrontation

More than 3,000 kilometres north of the nation’s capital, soldiers, ships and aircraft of Canada’s Armed Forces gathered this week in one of the most remote areas of the country to answer one question: How would they board a foreign vessel that neither wanted to be seen, nor stopped.

What if the crew of that ship was near sensitive military sites in the North?

It may seem far-fetched. But vessels run routinely through the north with their transponders switched off — largely invisible to other ships, and not necessarily seen by Canada’s satellite and surveillance systems.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "China - Communist Slave State", Arctic

SLOBODIAN: Atheists pushing God ban on military chaplains (again)

Here we go again…

As Remembrance Day draws near, woke warriors within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are busy resurrecting a previously failed plot to muzzle chaplains and stomp on the religious freedom of Canadians.

Like hounds obsessively chasing a bone, hypocritical individuals within the CAF who piously preach inclusivity remain determined to exclude God from public military ceremonies.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

NATO deterrence mission in Latvia drains the Canadian Army’s fleet of vehicles

The Canadian Army does not have enough vehicles to support both the brigade in Latvia and a similar-sized training exercise in Canada, a House of Commons committee was told on Thursday.

Maj.-Gen. Robert Ritchie, the director of the strategic joint staff (the military’s nerve centre), told the defence committee that over 400 vehicles of all types have been deployed for the NATO deterrence mission in the Baltic nation.

I bet they all got damaged at Pride parades.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Not just the F-35: Canada’s many U.S. military deals will be a tough sell to boycott-minded Canadians

Defence Minister David McGuinty is clearly getting tired of being asked about the soon-to-be-completed review of Canada’s purchase of F-35 fighters from the United States.

“You’ve heard me on this before,” he told journalists on Tuesday, with uncharacteristic frankness. “The F-35 review is continuing. It’s — I have nothing else to say at this stage.”

The poor man hasn’t been able to poke his head out in public over the last few months without facing questions about the politically charged review in one form or another.

My suspicion remains that other states have steered clear of doing business with the Carney government.

His Big International Success has been to promise Zelensky’s forever war more of our money while Canadians can’t afford homes and Carney’s Corporate Welfare pals swamp the nation with 3rd World cheap labour.

Fear of Trump? Canada’s unreliability? Carney’s Climate Craziness? Lots of reasons why.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Canada’s submarine choice could break tradition, embrace South Korea in Indo-Pacific shift

Baking Powder Submarine

A South Korean company has made the short list to supply this country with a fleet of submarines, and if Ottawa ultimately picks Seoul-based Hanwha it would be the first time Canada has purchased a major weapons platform from a non-Western supplier.

It would represent a significant pivot from American and European contractors and forge a new relationship with an Asian country that faces major security challenges of its own, including a heavily-militarized Korean Peninsula and an increasingly aggressive People’s Republic of China.

Fearless Prediction: The Sub program will never come to fruition.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCN"

U.S. warns Canada of potential negative consequences if it dumps F-35 fighter jet

The release of the Canadian military’s review of the F-35 fighter jet is expected shortly but the U.S. has already signalled this country could face serious consequences if the Liberal government decides not to proceed with the arms deal.

Defence Minister David McGuinty has committed to the public release of the review which will come by the end of the summer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCAF", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

German or South Korean subs? Ottawa’s pick will hinge on economic windfall

Ottawa will favour the pitch that creates the most Canadian jobs when it decides whether to award a contract for a dozen new submarines to a German or a South Korean consortium, the government’s point person for military procurement says.

The comments from Liberal MP Stephen Fuhr highlight the Carney government’s attempts to build up the Canadian industrial base while ramping up defence spending to levels unprecedented in recent history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCN"

Handgun widely used by Canadian military at centre of RCMP misfiring investigation

The handgun at the centre of an RCMP investigation on Prince Edward Island has been the subject of a flurry of lawsuits and counter-lawsuits involving its manufacturer — and was recently acquired in large numbers by the Canadian Armed Forces.

The pistol, a SIG Sauer P320, allegedly misfired while in a Charlottetown police officer’s holster on Sept. 4.

Several U.S. law enforcement agencies have either suspended or discontinued use of the pistol this year over alleged safety concerns. The gun was also at the centre of an investigation by one branch of the American military following the accidental death of a U.S. Air Force security airman in July.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", RCMP

If Canada’s military wants the best and brightest, it needs to change its recruitment approach

RMC Royal Military College

The world is increasingly dangerous. Canada’s prosperity and sovereignty are under mounting threat from climate shocks, economic protectionism, ideological extremism, and predatory great powers. In this fraught security environment, our Canadian Armed Forces need smart and agile recruits who can leverage new battlefield technologies, navigate socio-cultural ambiguity, and respond quickly and strategically to threats.

But even after hitting a 10-year high in recruitment last year, the CAF is short roughly 14,000 personnel, and it is unlikely to meet Ottawa’s goal of achieving 25-per-cent female participation by next year.

Take away – Boys are bad. More girls needed and I’ll assume trannies are welcome.

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Parts shortages, snarled supply chains are sidelining Canadian vehicles and troops in Latvia: documents

Prime Minister Mark Carney recently walked a gauntlet of parked military gear while visiting Canadian and allied troops in Latvia.

All of it was spit and polish, some draped in camouflage and looking showroom ready, if not somewhat menacing.

It was an impressive, seemingly substantive, display of combat power.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

A look at the race to replace Canada’s rapidly aging fleet of submarines

OTTAWA – The contest to supply Canada with its next fleet of submarines heated up this week, as Ottawa narrowed down the competition to just two suppliers: a Korean company and a German one.

Here’s a look at where the massive procurement project currently stands.

1. Why does Canada need to buy new submarines?

Canada is racing to replace its deteriorating fleet of Victoria-class submarines. The fleet, bought second-hand from the U.K. in 1998, is rapidly aging and are expensive to repair and replace parts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

How, and at what cost, could Canada catch up to Poland’s defence spending?

There was a particularly striking moment last week in Warsaw as Prime Minister Mark Carney renewed his friendship with Poland’s Donald Tusk, a flash that subtly captured the stark choices Canada will likely face in the not-too-distant future.

Carney was genuine in his praise of the eastern European country’s wholehearted, enthusiastic embrace of NATO and the Western alliance’s defence spending targets.

“We learn much from the prime minister, from his government, including the importance of pulling our full weight in NATO,” Carney said.

How to catch up? We can ask Poland to annex us!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Poland

Canada is strengthening defence ties with Finland and Sweden. What can they teach us?

To find Western Europe’s largest artillery practice range, you have to head north — far north.

Rovajärvi lies just above the Arctic Circle, outside the town of Rovaniemi, in Finnish Lapland. And in late May, as young conscripts complete their final weeks of training on firing artillery cannons, it’s cold enough for the soldiers to bundle up in thick gloves and neck warmers.

Finnish conscript Iivari Luukari has been training for months on these howitzers, which are identical to those currently used in Europe’s bloodiest conflict since the Second World War.

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David Oliver: Mark Carney’s European submarine hunt

Mark Carney’s visit Tuesday to the shipyard of ThyseenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) in Kiel Germany, confirmed it and South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean Co. as the two leading bidders to fulfil the requirement of 12 submarines under Canada’s Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP).

Carney’s visit to Ukraine, Poland and Germany comes as Canada seeks to signal its intent to rebuild an atrophied set or defence assets and defence industrial base. It also signals Canada’s desire for strategic autonomy from the U.S. as it builds hard and soft power links with other western allies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCN", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada scrambles to fill equipment gaps as it extends Latvia mission

The Liberal government has extended Canada’s NATO presence in Latvia for another three years, but it is still struggling to fill in the equipment gaps as the war in Ukraine rapidly reshapes the battlefield troops might be expected to fight on.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the three-year extension Tuesday night following a meeting with Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina in Riga, the capital of the Baltic country.

On Wednesday, he visited Canadian troops at Camp Adazi, where roughly 2,200 Canadian soldiers are serving along with 1,300 troops from more than a dozen other NATO nations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government