As has been pointed out by many others in another thread, this isn’t humiliating, this is a normal police action involving armed men in territorial waters.

Sure, ‘accidentally’. It’s a cat we’re talking about.

Maybe you’re confusing the Leopard C2s and Leopard 2A6M CAN... The Leopard C2 is actually a Canadianized Leopard 1A5 (various mods and the option of adding heavy applique armour). The 2A6M CANs were German 2A6Ms which were ‘lease to own’ (not really, but essentially what happened) with slat armour and Barracuda nets…

You say silly, but it was (loosely) based on a real weapon:

On the flip side, I’ve held off on buying things in the hopes that something else I wanted more would be on sale later, only to miss out because it never came up, or never came up for a price that would make it worth getting. This means that I can go back at the end of the sale and get whatever I actually want without…

I think this is meant to be more of a G-Wagen (which is the SUV of choice among many (most?) NATO/NATO aligned militaries) analog than a Humvee analog.

Boohoo? Is it really such an inconvenience to have to scroll past an article or two?

Except that accidents do happen...

It’s an impressive piece of cosplay, maybe? Just a gun wrapped in sheet metal. Sorry to disappoint.

Except that it is clearly just a gun wrapped in some thin sheet metal... So, you know...

Not to mention that ours (Canada’s) come with a turret and 25mm gun standard.

Kiiiind of already happened? See: 1st Special Service Force AKA The Devil’s Brigade. Joint US/Canadian commando unit during the Second World War.

In fact, I’ll reiterate here (since I doubt it’ll make it out of the greys in the other comment) that defence spending as a percentage of GDP under the last couple of years of the Conservative government is lower than it was under the last Liberal government (1.0% now vs 1.1% then). And despite a spike in spending to…

Just going to point out that the current Canadian defence budget now is currently lower (1.0%) as a percentage of GDP than it was under the last Liberal Government (1.1%). And, despite a 3 year spike in spending (‘spike’ being a 0.03-0.5% increase from 1.1% to 1.6%) at the height of our Afghan adventures, it has…

No, that has more to do with the fact that swords were expensive, and polearms are comparatively cheap - both in terms of material cost and time to manufacture. It’s a myth that swords were ‘bludgeoning weapons’. They weren’t. They weren’t terribly effective in armoured combat, but most people on the battlefield…

Yeah, but construction has officially begun, so it may be a little late to change now. Essentially we’re getting overbuilt, underarmed OPVs. Some background here: http://casr.ca/bg-navy-aops-i…

Typical myopic view. While we (Canada) do dramatically underspend on defense now, it wasn’t always that way. NATO judges commitments based on percent of GDP spent on defense because not all countries are as wealthy or densely populated as the US. Historically, Canada’s defense spending was 2% of GDP or higher, which…

Not more than we currently have, more than are currently expected to be be replaced.

The 152mm was 152mm because it was meant to fling HE/HEAT and missiles, so velocity wasn’t required. The biggest problem is that the
Shillelagh was a pretty much a failure, and a little tank was stuck with a big gun which brings up the other problems you mention.

After double checking, you’re mostly right, it was modeled on the Sterling, the Sten’s successor (although similar in many ways). The FG 42 was used for the DLT-20A in ESB. Could have sworn it was used in the original movie, too. My bad.