Comments by "Franceyne Ireland" (@franceyneireland1633) on "Russia Lost Two More Fighter Jets Today u0026 Sweden Joins NATO" video.

  1. Sadly Canada cut military expenditures and manufacturing when Prime Minister Diefenbaker agreed to stop making major armaments due to pressure from the US, as the US wanted to have the bulk of military spending and responsibility of all of the military manufacturing. Diefenbaker cut Canada's military from 5% of GDP to about 2% of GDP over six years 1957-1964. I believe there was some form of agreement made between the US and Canada. It's not just an issues of restarting the manufacturing the armaments have changed a great deal since then. The shells Canada produces are the M107 variant of the 155 mm shell (known as a training round), not the more accurate and a longer range M795 variant of the 155mm (NATO standard). The estimates from the Industry to update the manufacturing has gone from 200 million to 400 million since last fall and the industry forecasts three years for the production line to be operational.
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  2. Igor Gouzenko a cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, and a lieutenant of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate. He defected on September 5, 1945, three days after the end of World War II, with 109 documents on the USSR's espionage activities in the West. Igor Gouzenko, his wife and child had been living in Canada for year living in an apartment away from the other embassy workers and loved the freedom that was in Canada, it bothered him what the Soviets were attempting to do to their allies. Some of the information he provided was the names of Soviet spies and citizens who were providing information to the Soviets in Canada, US and UK. Igor, his wife and child were relocated to Camp X in Canada as there was troops stationed there, given new identities. This was the start of the Cold War, when the West acknowledged the Soviets were not their ally.
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  3. By the end of WW2 Canada has the world's fourth largest air force and third largest navy from a population of 11 million. Manufactured ships, fighter planes, bombers, tanks and weapons shipped to the UK with the exception to the Soviet Union when the allies began sending supplies and armaments to the Soviets after Germany invaded. Sadly Canada cut military expenditures and manufacturing when Prime Minister Diefenbaker agreed to stop making major armaments due to pressure from the US, as the US wanted to have the bulk of military spending and responsibility of all of the military manufacturing. Diefenbaker cut Canada's military from 5% of GDP to about 2% of GDP over six years 1957-1964. Many believe the pressure from the US contributed to the cancellation in 1959 of the Avro Arrow fighter jet, before it could enter military duty. In 1958 it was the world's first computerized flight control and weapons systems made it the worlds first fly-by-wire aircraft. It was the fastest jet of it's class twice the speed of sound at an altitude of 53,000 feet and on the Arrow's first flight it broke four different speed records. An estimated 25,000 employees lost their jobs some 14,000 highly skilled employees who left to work on the Concorde in the UK and in the US space program, Lockheed and Boeing. I agree Canada needs to restart military manufacturing, as it does have a lot of natural resources to do so, but I'm concerned there is an election coming up in Canada, there will be pressure on the current government to spend funds in Canada.
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  4. Canada has sent 5 separate shipments of 40,000 rounds of the 155 MM, half of which had to be purchased from the US for Ukraine. Canada produces about 5,000 a month of the the M107 variant of the 155 mm shell (known as a training round), not the more accurate and a longer range M795 variant of the 155mm (NATO standard). Last fall the cost of moderizing productiion lines and expanding production initial proposals from General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GDOT) in Quebec and IMT Defence in Ingersoll, Ont. called for an investment of only $200 million — an amount the federal cabinet was prepared to accept and approved. Since  last fall the industry now estimates have doubled to $400 million. Once the money is approved, industry forecasts three years for the production line to be operational. There are significant supply chain issues, Blair said. Part of the problem is the defence industry's struggles to secure a supply of the mineral antimony (a critical component in everything from armour-piercing bullets and shells to night vision goggles) outside of China. At the Munich Security conference Pavel ( Czech Republic) managed to locate about 800,000 artillery shells of NATO and Soviet-era calibres (about 500,000 155-mm artillery shells and 300,000 122-mm shells ) that could be shipped to Ukraine in a few weeks, non-NATO countries, but needs financial support. Canada siad it's prepared to get behind Czech Republic and could contribute as much as $30 million. Blair said this will enable the shells getting more rapidly to Ukraine as Canada ramps up on own production.
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