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Originally Posted by Okotokian
You will have to excuse my pessimism regarding military procurement. Its just that I have a brother who has been waiting about 15 years for a new helicopter. He'll retire before he flies it. Its a totally incompetent branch of the DND. helicopters, supply ships, submarines, aircraft... total %#$@ up.
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That may be so in most areas but weaponry is one area where we don't mess around. Right now the only gap is a new service pistol but nobody carry's them overseas anyway, mainly just a camp gun for inside the wire.
Procurement is not controlled by DND, if it were Canada would be the best equipped military in the world. It is controlled by Public Works and Government Services Canada which takes advice from the Department who has taken the advice from the Army, Navy and Air Force and then proceeds to louse it up. Except for weapons, we haven't gone wrong on weapons yet!