{"id":494,"date":"2026-07-16T20:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:06:04","slug":"military-armoured-vehicle-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/16\/military-armoured-vehicle-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Military: armoured vehicle purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>When it comes to defence spending, a price tag can catch attention.<\/h3>\n<p>The following is by my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nI read recently the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/canada\/canada-to-buy-190-armoured-vehicles-from-ontario-based-manufacturer-in-2b-deal\/ar-AA2836Qd?ocid=msedgntp&#038;pc=HCTS&#038;cvid=6a5928cef2a4486a8104689d14ac3f3e&#038;ei=58\">&#8220;Carney announces made-in-Canada armoured vehicle deal worth nearly &dollar;2B.&#8221; (July 16, 2025, Canadian Press.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe article seems to suggest purchase of 190 vehicles for &#8220;nearly &dollar;2B.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s imagine, just for round figures, the deal is two billion for two hundred vehicles. Well, two billion has nine zeros, while two hundred has two. So, the price per vehicle is 1 followed by seven zeros, or ten million.<\/p>\n<p>\nPerhaps I&#8217;ve missed something, but as I see it, ten million seems perhaps a lot for an armoured vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\nInteresting, eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\">-js<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to defence spending, a price tag can catch attention. The following is by my understanding. I read recently the article &#8220;Carney announces made-in-Canada armoured vehicle deal worth nearly &dollar;2B.&#8221; (July 16, 2025, Canadian Press.) The article seems to suggest purchase of 190 vehicles for &#8220;nearly &dollar;2B.&#8221; Let&#8217;s imagine, just for round figures, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[135,136],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","tag-armoured-vehicles","tag-defence-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}