New Canadian Ranger rifle

[mrclark303]

The procurement process in the West (probably most countries) has always been an enormous confidence trick in my opinion, perpetrated by the Military Industrial Complex and woven into various levels of thoroughly complicit Governments and their Civil services.

The primary objective is always to extract the maximum amount of money from the tax payer and to keep that money coming in over the longest possible timeframe.

Providing robust and cost effective defence is definitely of secondary importance in their eyes.

It's interesting to see just how fast gear can be provided when it's desperately needed, here in the UK we use the Urgent Operational Requirements procedure when needed (During Afghanistan Operations for instance), kit can be acquired at best speed, albeit, perhaps not with the long term support needed.

But it does show that gear can be brought into service quickly when the mindset and will is there, probably at a respectable cost too, considering it hasn't been procrastinated over for 10 years first!