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Originally Posted by P_Funk
You know as a Canadian I'm gald we're at least getting new equipment. The 90s saw a bad spree for the Canadian military. The absurd consolidation into a single armed force for one, the wholesale selling off of advanced equipment, then the disbanding of elite troops for no real purpose. But now we need all that back. I think I remember reading that Canadian troops were actually transported by Chinooks owned by the Dutch that we sold them years earlier in Afghanistan in the first part of the conflict.
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In 1993 (iirc) the Canadian Army got 6 T-72's for evaluation, and I got to climb around on them at CFB Gagetown. I think the Russians were selling them for $10K each plus Shipping and Handling.
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