@ Kaiser_Mobius: Yes, I'll start to present our allies after this update. And yes, Manitoba is not to be messed with.
@ coorta88: UNA navies combined are trully impressive force, but same might be said also for Syndicalist and EuroAsian navies...
@ Aliasing: I don't know which type of aircraft this really is, because this sprite represents everything that is bigger than fighter (CAS, strategic bomber, transport...), but I'm quite sure this must be Fengtien airlift aircraft. Dear President Kim Jong Il probably sent it for some Canadian Whiskey.
@ Mr. Santiago: In this alternate universe Edward VIII married a peer (Windsors couldn't afford abdication scandal in a world where nobility is still very influental force and Hohenzollern rivals are observing their every step) and Richard is his descendant.
@ TemplarComander: Glad to hear that!
@ everyone, thanks for comments! And yes Kurt Steiner, me also thinks that you should start another MDS-KR too!
Canada
6-Aug-2003
2100 hrs
In the evening, addition about the briefing about the state of Canadian economy and its influence on Canadian defense was attached to report. Information on economy was provided by finance minister Jay Rockefeller. Situation was not too good. Recent general strike in Quebec, launched by Quebecoise trade unions and underlined by massive demonstrations of various groups as protest against centralization, prohibition of several Quebecoise political parties due to connections with separatism and political syndicalism, limitations of civil and social rights and conscription system, damaged industrial production, paralyzed many transport links and planted seeds of deep dissent in society. Protests and strikes enjoyed some smaller-scale support also in other parts of Canada, mostly in industrial centers.
Fortunately, services from defense industry complex, govermental agencies, military itself and from other important defense-connected sources weren't endangered by those events. Canadian goverment had enough funds to support research on five major defense-oriented technological projects. Such researches were done by trustworthy research teams from state services, home companies, foreign subsidiaries and international organizations, such as Commonealth Space Agency, joint space research agency of Royal Commonwealth of Nations, successor of British Empire that united both nations that are still under royal canopy and are technically still royal dominions (Canada, Australasia, Hawaii), and former members of British Empire, now republics (India, South Africa, Rhodesia, Nyasaland). Royal Commonwealth of Nations provides technical, economic, security, cultural and political cooperation of its members.
L85, standard service rifle of Royal Canadian Armed Forces. Developed and produced by New England company Colt, various models produced by license abroad and used as standard service rifle by many Canadian allies.
Challenger 2, serving as Canadian standard MBT together with upgraded models of Challenger 1.
Due to large need for armor, Challenger 1 wasn't completely replaced by more advanced Challenger 2 model, so upgraded models of Challenger 1 are still in broad use. Picture depicts Challenger 1 during excercise in Oman.
LAV III Stryker, joint project of NCR and Canada defense industries, improved derivative, based on Canadian LAV III, now used by both Canada and NCR as standard IFV.