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Subject:
RE:Canada
bunglefoot
12/4/2003 6:14:39 PM
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For starters, Canada can scrap the idea of replacing tanks with strykers. As a canadian, I resent the fact that the gov't is telling us that we can replace 100+ actual leopard tanks with 66 strykers equipped with a 105mm gun. Put bluntly: This vehicle cannot fill the shoes that our government says it will be filling. Try pitting our 66 stryker 'tanks' against 10 or so t-90's. Or heck, against 10 or so bradley IFV's. The armor on the stryker is incapable of defending not only against RPG's, but also against any gun of reasonably large callibre.
Also, those subs we bought from britain. Pathetic choice... As far as I know they are -still- not even seaworthy.
For Canada to become more of a military influence in the world, we would have to:
1: Raise the pay of members of the military. Starting pay for a recruit is less than minimum wage on a $ph basis. This is why I have not joined the reserves, I make more money in 5 hours at my tech job than I would make in a 10 hour day in the canadian military. Raising the base pay from about 66 a day to 100 would do much to attract the kind of people that the canadian military needs. (Can. military has failed to meet recruiting requirements for the past several years.)
2. Stop buying cast-off equipment. Full stop.
3. Start buying state of the art equipment, to whit: replace the sea king helicopters, purchase some actual attack helicopters, and purchase some actual.. I dunno.. TANKS to replace the tanks we are getting rid of, not a 1/2 ratio of strykers which, it seems, are riddled with problems and that will end up being scrapped like our subs.
4. Canadians have to stop being so apathetic about our military. Right now, the canadian DND is a joke, with purchases and policies being made and changed according to the political whims of the current jackass in charge. (bye chretien, and good riddance) This also must change, the current gov't literally wasted almost a billion dollars by backing out of a decision to buy much needed helicopters for the AF made by the previous government.
5. Canada does not have a lot of money for the armed forces, I admit. However, we can definately afford more than we are spending. (Cough. Billions of dollars of surplus every year. Cough.) So SPEND that money, don't piss it up a rope with subsidies for famers or whathaveyou. Build an army that Canada can be proud of, and that our allies can rely on if necessary. |
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