[OT]Second-Hand Canuck Gear

Wonder what the Canadian Army did with the turrets of their old leopard 1's,
after they got new ones from Germany?

You know your army's not the best equipped when you buy gear too obsolete even
for CANADA...

http://www.users.bigpond.com/AMEP/august2000.html

An interesting photo of a Leopard 1AS is at
http://www.users.bigpond.com/AMEP/jul98.htm

> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Alan E Brain wrote:

> Wonder what the Canadian Army did with the turrets of their

OUCH! A direct hit, Mr Brain...:>

The Canadian Army does have one or two neat toys; the Coyote recon vehicle is
actually supposed to be equal or superior to anything in anyone else's
armoury...

http://www.army.forces.ca/LF/equip/veh/COYOTE_E.HTML

(The Canadian Forces actually run some very good websites, this being one of
the better ones.)

I just noticed, on the above website, that the Canadian Leopard-based
bridge layer is called... wait for it... the Beaver.

That's so Canadian it's painful...:>

From: "Brian Burger" <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>

> > You know your army's not the best equipped when you buy gear too

More of an "own goal", Mr Burger. :-)

> The Canadian Army does have one or two neat toys; the Coyote recon

Nice. What's its performance in 40+ temperatures? That's Celsius, not
Fahrenheit. We've had to refit nearly everything from the Northern Hemisphere
with additional water storage, new Thermal Imaging equipment that works at 50C
as well
as -20C,
additional air conditioning etc.

> (The Canadian Forces actually run some very good websites, this being

Rather better than any of ours.
> I just noticed, on the above website, that the Canadian Leopard-based

Brian Burger schrieb:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Alan E Brain wrote:

The Bundeswehr and the Dutch are planning to buy "Fennek" recce vehicles:
http://www.panzerbaer.de/types/bw_fennek.htm

Pretty neat, too, but not much of a fighting vehicle. Sensor suite
includes various cameras/imagers, deployable ground vibration sensors,
a small UAV with 10 Km range, and the vehicle can be remote controlled.

Now, if they get all that to work...

Greetings

Brian Burger schrieb:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Alan E Brain wrote:

I think the Leopard on the Battlefront site is a Canadian C1 with upgrade
package:
http://www.panzerbaer.de/types/leopard_c1n.htm
The "Panzerbaer" site has a pretty complete collection of Leopard 1 variants:
http://www.panzerbaer.de/types/d_leo_1.htm
Includes some pretty exotic vehicles. Note especially the
"Kasemattenpanzer" variants VT-1 / VT-2 at the end of the page.

Greetings

Alan and Carmel Brain schrieb:
> > I just noticed, on the above website, that the Canadian

Actually, the Bridgelayer is called "Biber" in Germany.

> And the German Biber you call a "Badger". Eh? :-)

The engineer version is called "Dachs" (Badger) here, too.

See:
http://www.panzerbaer.de/types/d_leo_1.htm
Or for the German-challenged ;-)
http://www.jed.simonides.org/tanks/lima/leopard1_series/leopard1-series.
html

Greetings

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:33:04 +1100 "Alan and Carmel Brain"
> <aebrain@webone.com.au> writes:
<snip>
> I must tell you the story of the "Mad Mountie", a Canuck Submariner on

I'm waiting, so tell, so tell!

Gracias,

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:03:25 -0800 (PST) Brian Burger
> <yh728@victoria.tc.ca> writes:

Well, maybe. But it is appreciated by us "Middle North Americans" * appreciate
having you as neighbors. <Grin> Always nice to have one border secure without
controversy...

Gracias,