It reaffirms the core recommendations of the [Manley] report: that NATO find an additional 1,000 combat troops and that the government supply medium-lift helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles. The motion says Canada's combat role "should be commensurately reduced" if those conditions are met. Language can be interpreted any number of ways. It struck me as being pretty clear, pretty straightforward. I think 'training the Afghan national army' lets you say -- if you're the Liberals -- 'see we won, they're going to pull back from combat, a victory for us,"' said Jack Granatstein, noted Canadian military and political historian and author.
Parliament's extension of Canada's combat mission to 2011 came with two major equipment caveats -- helicopters and unmanned surveillance aircraft, both recommended by a panel led by former Liberal cabinet minister John Manley. The short-term lease of Russian helicopters from Toronto-based Skylink and the purchase of U.S. army Chinooks, already in theatre, will not affect the air force's long-term, $4.2-billion plan to buy 16 brand new CH-47F Chinooks, [Peter MacKay] said. Getting to this point has been a tortuous bureaucratic exercise. The debate has pitted the army, frantic to reduce soldiers' exposure to deadly roadside bombs, against a frustrated air force that's demanded it get a versatile aircraft, useful in more places than just Afghanistan.
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The plan calls for boosting the number of regular and reserve troops and moving ahead with replacement of the military's fighter jets, surface combat ships, maritime patrol vessels, transport helicopters, armoured vehicles, helicopters and fixed-wing search-and-rescue aircraft -- among...
...(g) any battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large caliber artillery systems, combat aircrafts, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems as defined ...
... the alliance a key advantage in close-up combat, flying at much lower altitudes. The British Apach...
... to Iran of any battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large calibre artillery systems, combat aircrafts, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems. Although...
..."armoured combat vehicles" means tracked, semi-tracked or wheeled s... systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems, or related...
... no equivalent elsewhere in South America--combat helicopters, submarines, surveillance vessels, and...
... the acquisition of hundreds of tanks, helicopters and bulletproof vehicles as well as submarines and..., a good part of which were designed for combat operations. The information also includes S-300 an...
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