The Hill Times has an article on a recent report on the readiness/capabilities shortcomings of the Canadian military.
The actual report (which is pretty detailed) can be found here.
Unidentified sources have told the CBC that several Liberal cabinet ministers have announced they are not seeking re-election or are being moved to different portfolios. One of those ministers who is being re-assigned is apparently Defence Minister Anand.
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If true, it will be...
Interesting video of an Ukrainian improvised 40mm mortar round. In essence the Ukrainians have taken a 60mm mortar and using a metal sleeve into which a AGS-17 round is inserted and the sleeve and and round are dropped into the mortar and the round is launched. Range approx. 2 km s.
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Stumbled across this some time ago and only now getting around to posting it. A short little book written on a almost unknown aspect of the history of Special Forces in Canada. The book deals with the establishment of a Canadian Special Air Service (SAS) Company after WW2 and its downfall...
An old report and my apologies if this has already been posted. Its an interesting article on the sinking of a decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Rodney M. Davis by US and allied forces, including HMCS Winnipeg which launched one Harpoon missile at the ship.
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Interesting article on how the FBI and Australian Federal Police, plus numerous other police agencies were able to disrupt organized crime groups worldwide. Attached below is the actual unsealed search warrant that goes into detail on how the FBI/AFP carried out the operation and a FBI press...
Remember when the pandemic first started and people were speculating as the whether the virus had actually escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology? And several scientists came out and said that no, "we [the scientific community] have no evidence to indicate that" and most of us thought that...
Wasn't sure where to place this article so the Mods can move it if they want. It will interesting to see if this ever takes place. And I'm sure various militaries might be interested, if for VIP transports if nothing else.
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America Has a GPS Problem
The system is essential but also vulnerable. We need a backup.
By Kate Murphy
Kate Murphy, a frequent contributor to The New York Times, is a commercial pilot and author of “You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters.”
Jan. 23, 2021
Time was when...
Harvard Professor of Astronomy Avi Loeb has written a book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth that theorizes that Oumuamua which sailed through our solar system in October 2017 was actually an artifact from an alien civilization, and not an comet as the majority...
George Blake, one of the Cambridge Five, a group of Russian spies in British intelligence, has, according to Russian authorities passed away.
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Blake was the last of the Cambridge Five: Donald Maclean died 6 March 1983; Guy Burgess 30 August 1963; Harold "Kim" Philby 11 May 1988; and...
October will be the 50th anniversary of the October Crisis, a national crisis that followed a long line of bombings in Quebec which culminated in the kidnapping of two politicians, the subsequent murder of one and the declaration of martial law by PM Pierre Trudeau. All of which still has...
For those who may be interested, the UAE is launching its own Mars mission probe this afternoon. You can watch it here live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXsh4bQ52zY
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