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You better sit down for this. We're asking Air Command to turn some of them into gunships.
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Fell out of my chair.
OMG you guys have lost your minds
. I mean if Indonesia wanted to use theirs to fire rockets and spary machine guns at bow and arrow armed guerillas that's one thing, but Canada fighting more combat ready foes? I mean with a good UH-1M style weapons system (7 70mm rockets and 1 gatling guns on each side) it could provide some escort for transport models, but gunships againist real enemy forces?
Plus the Bell 412 is damn ugly looking with weapons on the side...
Like I said UH-60s and then maybe make a few into AH-60Ls with Hellfires, gunpods, rockets like Colombia uses. The UH-60 is better suited for entering combat (yes I know they can be shot down) and better at high altitude operations (like Afghanistan). At least those are more crashworthy and could make log work easier as we use the UH-60 and so do other possible allies.
But in reality...
I guess it is to late to undo the Bell 412, which in fact is really unable to combat lift an LG-1 Mk.2 105mm gun but came cheaper. Of course hanging rockets and machine guns off the Bell 412 does at the end of the day save money. It all depends how they plan to use them....
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I do. If we have use for the MGS, we have use for a tank.
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Me I'm more thinking being deployable. A MGS is more deployable then a tank. Of course one could save the money on a new tank by just keeping the Leo-1 around as it could be used for infantry support and anti tank duties.
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Maybe we Americans should want Canada to up the budget some.
I think you guys already spend like 12.7 billion
. Got a 20 something thousand man army, a small air force (many CF-18s with outdated systems/weapons and many in storage up for sale) and a decently sized navy where ever does the money go...
