Canadian troops check their weapons including No. 4 MK. I*(T) rifles fitted with examples of the rare C No.67 MK.I sniper scope before a patrol near Chorwon in South Korea on June 27th 1951

[LukeFF]

 

[Avimimus]

Interesting! In the Interwar years some of our troops were notoriously ill equipped. I've heard that they actually got out moth worn uniforms and raced the same group of soldiers ahead of the Royal visit to stand and salute the passing train in the guise of multiple units to encourage England at the start of WWII.

We built huge numbers of ships and aircraft though (and quite a few tanks). By the wars end we had the fifth largest navy.

Since then there is a bit of a reputation for favouring good equipment - I was told that our forces are equipped to a degree closer to U.S. special forces. I suspect this is somewhat due to our auxiliary role in alliance structures: We don't provide that many troops so we specialise in roles like shock troops, SIGINT, sniper teams etc.

There are also some MCS era projects festooning Striker turrets with five different weapon systems, some rather mad attempts to up-arm the Iroquois, our investment in the hydrofoil project, and our decision to build ADATS among other things... so it doesn't surprise me that we had our own sniper scopes in the '50s.

Of course the rangers used the Lee Enfield into the 21st century due to its maintainability in the high arctic... so it is definitely a mixed picture.

[Pausehelio]

Dutchies from Netherlands Detachment UN with an Garand M1 C/D. I guess it was a readilly available weapon.