Far be it from me to criticize the Canadian Defense Departments purchasing policies, but.........
I have a problem with decimals also but it looks to me like you are contemplating spending $CDN22 million per vehicle which will get you exactly 33 vehicles.
Given the nature of today's conflcts, I cannot understand what they are thinking about. How does an army deploy 33 tanks, which I guess these are even if on wheels.?
You could not invade nor even protect a city of a couple of hundred thousand with that size force, let alone mount any kind of armoured offensive against an enemy force.
As well, as we and the Brits are finding out every day, that type of vehicle can be destroyed by a $500 RPG or an even cheaper IED made out of a stolen aircraft bomb or some plastique.
Going back to someone's comment about the price of an M38A1CDN, those little beggars with either a .50 cal. or a recoilless 105 numbering in the hundreds could wreak a lot more havoc on infantry or armoured formations.
They were very fast, very nimble, very hideable and very cheap for what they did. In today's money, maybe a hundred thousand US.
Again, I have a problem with decimals but I think it works out to 6.400 such vehicles for the same money.
Can you imagine the firepower effect, the shock effect of 6,400 little Jeeps descending on your forces???
It's like the SAS and the LRDG all over again.
Cheers
Bill
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