I never said why they were doing it, just that they were. It’s entirely their doing.

The Saudi’s are the ones keeping the price low in the first place. Demand didn’t decrease, they stepped up production. They’re flooding the market.

It’s been tried. Just about every major tank producing country tried it leading up to and during WW2. All of them abandoned it as it meant additional weight with no benefit, additional time needed to prepare the tank for rail travel/prepare for fighting, additional complexity, etc etc.

Actually, in this case, cue would be correct. As in ‘anything that is said or done following a specific action’. You could cue the queue (ordered line) of sexist assholes, though.

I would imagine a lot of it gets filmed and/or photographed, actually. For liability purposes alone.

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…