This Week in Defence: Special Rumor Edition (Restructuring, Medium Cavalry, New LAV)

Hello everyone, and welcome to this special edition of This Week in Defence. Through popular demand I have decided to move up the rumors from Monday's edition to today as quite frankly I was getting a bit worn with all the messages and questions. Besides, better you hear it from me than someone else!

There is a lot to go through so this will be formatted a bit differently than normal!

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Let's start with the major aspect of todays rumors, restructuring. This has been a hot topic for the last few months and one I have been very hesitant to put in here due to the conflicting and volatile information.

However with plans approved in the last few weeks, as well as going though about four different people for verification, I think im finally in a position where I can confidently put this out there.

The new army will be centered around three divisions, broken down between the regular, reserve, and a support division. The working designation for these two new Divisions are the 6th and 7th.

The 6th Division will be comprised of:

• 1 CMBG

• 2 CMBG

• 5 CMBG

• 1x Light Infantry Regiment

• 1x Fires Brigade

• 1x Protection Brigade

• 1x Sustainment Brigade

The 7th Division will be the reserves and rangers and has been, at least in some documentation, been referred to as the 'Continental Division'. I sadly dont have much on the Seventh.

This is the info that I have as of now. I am still working on gathering more details but this is the basic structure of how the future army will look. Obviously some of you were expecting more, and hoped to see something more radical done.

Some of you will be very happy with this and how straightforward it is. It is a plan that makes sense and is within realistic expectations. As always, we take these as speculation and not as fact. Plans can change but I am fairly confident that this is the active plan.

I am awaiting some more time before I give my thoughts, as well as more info to come out. I think it is still to early for me to judge, but my current feels are a mixed bag. Perhaps next week I will dive more.

That isnt the only news we have though. There has been a few major things that have come up the last few weeks as funding was announced and plans formalized. Here is the rundown:

• The Medium Cavalry Capability project, while extremely early, has some info coming out of it. The rumored plan I heard was to acquire up to 400 vehicles as part of the project. There is conflicting issue on what this would look like amd I can confirm that Tracked vehicle are being discussed. I have gotten mixed info on if this is a Tracked program exclusively or merely open to them.

• Cabinet reportedly approved a request of $3.4B for the procurement of additional LAV and ACSV near the end of June. The current plan is to acquire up to 190 additional LAV through this funding.

• There is rumors of additional LAVs in rhe pipeline beyond this. There is at least one LAV project valued at $2.5B. No details.

• There is also a Leopard Life-Extension project valued at $5B on the books.

• There is ALSO an Active Protection System project on the books that I never remember from before.

• Remember that Anti-Tank mine project from a few months ago? It is now the Area Access Control Program and surely violated some international laws because holy fuck does it sound insane.

There will be no rumor page on mondays newsletter unless something big comes along. I also urge, again, that while all of this sounds awesome and completely mind-exploding to exercise some restraint. I will work hard to keep track of all of these amd hopefully come back in a few weeks with updates for everything.