Spare parts deficiency, advanced supply chains marginalize the Canadian vehicles and forces in Latvia: documents

Prime Minister Mark Carney recently marched a set of parked military equipment during the visit of Canadian forces and animals in Latvia.

All of this was spit and polishing, some of them wrapped in the camouflaged showroom and looking for a ready -made showroom, if not a somewhat threat.

It was an apparently impressive and objective offer for combat power.

If he just knows what it is probably the matter to get these tanks, armored vehicles, the Hoszer and other pieces on the garden of concrete vehicles.

The Canadian battle group, the nucleus of the NATO brigade in Latvia, has learned, through a shortage of some cases – a lack of spare parts that were regularly marginalized.

A recent internal briefing, a copy of which was obtained by CBC News, shows that the rough road rate of the Canadian unit in the Baltic country was “high” and that even affected a modern training exercise.

“The factors that force the army on the parking vehicles include” the problems of the Canadian supply chain, the spare parts and the new “compressed” training system, which witnessed that the forces complement their joint training in Latvia, not in Canada.

During a recent training training, known as Exercise Strike, which occurred alongside other NATO allies this summer, the Canadian Automatic Infantry Company, the Leopard Tank Squadron, the combat support units, and the headquarters, are ineffective (CBT IE) due to the rough off -road off -road rate.

The chip surface said that the affected equipment included armored vehicles LAV 6 Light, Leopard 2A4s (major three -year -old tanks), driving and control vehicles, and benefit vehicles including trucks that run on the Hautezer.

Due to the lack of high vehicles, “more than 150 individuals” has been left outside the battle (LOB) or is unable to participate in the training exercise. This represents more than 30 percent of Canadian individuals participating in the training.

The Canadian Commander of the NATO brigade admitted that there are problems with spare parts and leopard tanks used as an example.

Colonel Chris Reeves said: “Spare parts contribute directly to the service capacity of the tanks here. Therefore, we have not fully arranged,” said Colonel Chris Reeves.

He said that the Canadian unit has “the priority of the parts available in the Canadian system” and must be ready to fight at all times.

Reeves said he hoped that the case would be resolved within a year, and Defense Secretary David McGilli told him that he was “actively working.”

Supply system challenges

Part 9.3 billion dollars in defensive spending This summer is allocated by the liberal government to improve spare parts stocks throughout the army.

During a visit to Latvia last week, McGuinty admitted that they were trying to fix the problem as quickly as possible for the entire army.

“We have searched for the necessary funds to continue the necessary investments, and we are thinking about the full question about how to buy parts, how we buy the necessary materials and how to continue them quickly and collect,” said Mccenty.

But it is not just the issue of filling out the stock boxes. The system itself needs a comprehensive reform.

The German manufacturer 2A4S spare parts come from Europe. But because of the military supply chain, these parts should go first to Canada before shipping to Europe for use in the brigade.

The absence of spare parts for the 2A4S spare parts was well established and documented not only in Canada but the other allies who use the old fighting vehicle. It has become a big problem, and almost priced, for Ukraine, after the tanks that the allies donated collapsed or were damaged in the battle and it was almost impossible to find the parts.

“This is unacceptable,” said retired General Lieutenant Andrew Leslie.

Canadian forces were deployed in Latvia for several years, and the crisis in Eastern Europe began with high equipment with the full invasion of Russia for Ukraine in February 2022.

“For the sake of the sky, we should have discovered how our forces were kept on the path of harm with the appropriate levels of equipment, with appropriate levels of spare and ammunition, supplies,” said Leslie, the former Canadian army commander.

Contracts of lack of financing is partially. But recently, Leslie said that the Trudeau government’s plan to give more money to the army, while forcing the Ministry of Defense to reduce another place, has exacerbated the problem.

“You must collect your work together because it does not happen now,” said Leslie.

Alan Williams, who was responsible for the branch of the Ministry of Defense in the early first decade of the twentieth century, also condemned the shortage and said that there was time to sort the problem.

He said that it has become customary in the administration to reduce what is known as the financing of national purchases, the money pot that pays – among other things – inventories and alternative stocks. During the Conservative Government’s previous campaign to reduce the deficit in the time frame 2012-14, this line achieved tremendous success and was not fully restored by the liberals.

Williams said that the policy of purchasing equipment, but then does not put enough money for maintenance and reforms is harm to the public and forces.

Williams said: “He really bother me, as you know, because our men deserve the best equipment that is properly preserved,” Williams said.

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