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Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
"Several years ago Defence Department bureaucrats in the policy office determined there was no longer a place for heavy artillery on the modern battlefield, so Canada scrapped all of its existing self-propelled M109 155mm howitzers. To replace them, the army invested in some light 105mm towed howitzers capable of being moved about the battlefield by heavy-lift helicopters (which we don't have) [further side bar...we sold our heavy hook assets to the Dutch who are using them to fine advantage, thank you very much]. .)
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Sounds like another case of the prescient gurus at the D.N.D. gazing into their crystal ball to divine the future battlefield ... incorrectly again, as usual! They tell us that there is no need for MBT's, so we get top heavy APC's with a penchant for rolling over.
The CF 105 was cancelled because, as we were told,
"There is no need for a
manned interceptor in the future battlefield."
So we deployed the Bomarc missile system which, when it was determined wasn't able to prevent forays by Russian Bears into our airspace, we purchased the F 101 Voodoo, which we all know are a
manned interceptor!
Many companies, and simple farmers too, made gobs of money after the war by selling back to the R.C.A.F. the aircraft which had been hastily disposed of by the D.N.D. The Found Brothers of Malton, Ontario financed their aircraft business by selling, at new price, back to the government the Lancasters, Merlins, and spare parts they had purchased at scrap prices a few years before.
The greatest tragedy perpetrated on we Canadians by the D.N.D.? Leaving all our CMP's where they were parked instead of returning them to Canada!
CHIMO!