Greetings all! Welcome back to a keynote, the Ontario Regiment Museum's annual event, and I've been pleasantly surprised to find something modern. Very modern indeed, in the museum collection. I'm actually honestly surprised as well. So what I'm setting in here is a lab three. It's basically a Moag Parana variant which is built locally here in Canada. This is a thoroughly modern vehicle. The seat, as you can see, is powered, which is unusual. It doesn't go forwards and backwards. The pedals go forwards and backwards, an interesting touch. But to drive it, this is basically a big car. So you see this is an 8x8. The two forward axles will steer, which is an improvement over the predecessors, which just six will drive vehicles. If you lost a wheel, then you will kind of hold. But in this one, you'll keep going. The lab three is being removed from service. It is being replaced by the lab six. But this is in effect an infantry fighting vehicle. It has the 25 millimeter brushmaster up top and a two-man turret to gather with the troops in the back. When you sit in it, you got a steering wheel, you got a transmission lever, just PRND 54321, as you would expect. There is a digital compass navigation system. A whole ton of items on the dash on the left, but the important one is basically just the Columbus Pararorn respermanent. So this thing would top-out at 100. The crew here had it running 80 kilometers an hour recently, which must have been amusing and fun, sadly. I will not know the joy. But since this is such a new vehicle, I thought it would be interesting to go around and have a look at some of the fun controls that we ordinarily don't get to see on all the tank's videos. So it turns out that opening up the engine compartment on this is a piece of cake. And without even asking, the guys just went open up the hood, open up the compartments. So they've opened up the hood and we can see the caterpillar inline six cylinder turbocharged engine, cranked out about 350 horsepower. Straight back, you're going to have a transmission. You got an air filter on the right there. Radiators are just above the transmission. I'm told a bull-up-proof engine, the guys love it. And the only complaint they have is if you hit the brakes too fast, the engine stops. Because the sensor thinks you've run out of oil. Okay, the crew compartment of the RV, eight guys would sit in the back here in addition to the three permanent crewmen on bench seats. Now I'm being told by my subject matter expert here that this bench seat type indicates a very early laugh. And this vehicle was used for training instead of operational deployment. When you went on overseas, you had more glass seats and so on. But so eight guys traveling in relative quiet and comfort compared to a tracked PC. I note one of the comfort features directly opposite is what they call it the CBU, the cooking and boiling unit. The rest of us will call it a boiling vessel or a kettle or a ration heater in American. And on an American vehicle, it's located in exactly the same place. I mean, why why mess with what works. The background you can see is two chains. And there is another chain holding it up. And depending on just how much stretch you give the chain, you can have the background completely horizontal. The work is a table chair or even your bed space if you happen to have enough room during how many people hang around. As I look forward, again, this is a modern vehicle. So you have a repeater camera for the dayside for the gun. So that the guys in the back, affectionately known as the Gibbs, are able to get some situational awareness as to what's going on outside. So just the addition to the camera will give you great situational awareness so that you know what to expect as soon as the ramp drops and the section gets out. You know how to orient yourselves. You know who's going to go left or right. You know who's going to aim at whatever. Very handy to be able to plan in advance. Little item to the right. It is nav system identical to that found up front with the driver. GPS, that's in no way where you're going can also be used to give you waypoints. Domelytes as you would expect, you'll note up here we have vent for an extremely effective air conditioning system. So they had this running yesterday and the air-con system works fantastically and I would have murdered somebody for one in Bradley in the desert or in my tank in the desert. Fired detection systems for automatic fire extinguishing and then you have the cage unlike a Bradley where you get into the cage from the direct back. There's just a little letter box pass through port otherwise you got to go around the side or get in the top. But if you're going to go into battle in an air-conditioned wheeled armored vehicle is probably a pretty comfortable way to want to. Right so the turret of the lab 3. Remember I used to command Bradley's after I commanded abombs. It's going to be very similar. Now subject to the criterion that this is not a real gun and so I don't have the receiver and the feeder back here but otherwise I can look at the panel I can look at the layout and I can generally figure out how to operate it. So one of the first differences between this and a Bradley is the 25 millimeter stowage is center between the two crewmen on this vehicle. On the Bradley I had a much larger bin towards the front of the turret basket but it did take up a little bit of my leg space as well as the counter. So you load your primary ammunition stowage which apparently tend to be armor piercing through here. The secondary stowage you can see the diagram on the side of the bin here is to the front. So you would rotate the turret off the left side and there would load the ammunition straight through the driver's hatch. There are two feed shoots mounted for just like on the Bradley except this time they load up towards the bottom of the gun whereas the Bradley because the ammunition bins around the side don't come in from the side of the turret without any great complication. However I am told that it is just as annoying and fiddling on the Canadian vehicle as it is to connect the feed shoots on the Bradley. So you either get it absolutely right and it just pops on first go or you are there fiddling and skinning your knuckles for the next 10 minutes piercing while you are trying to get the feed shoots to connect. It is both power and manual traverse and elevation so we have the manual controls here. Power control is a joystick right in the middle commander and gunner have the same. It is the lectures for main gun machine gun, rate of fire, 200 rounds a minute, 100 rounds a minute and single shot. Primary or secondary is ammunition feed and there is a laser button for ranging and applying the ballistic solution so I am being told that this will apply lead. My A2 did not apply lead only the A3s do. When you look at the control panel again if you look at the Bradley you can probably figure it out indicators for the ammunition feed type, the machine gun, safe arm, all very reasonable and understandable. Again we have a digital compass navigation system, per millimeter, daylight side, unity side. So power traverse is electric it is pretty fast and I will give you a demonstration so I got to power it up, a couple of turret powers controls here turn on battle over right and we're ready to go and I have to say you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one of these things because the chain gun is a very nasty weapon it's also a hooch to shoot. The 120 is awesome I thought the 25 millimeter was more fun. When you get to the outside of the turret wire cutters you find one here and one for the driver. The grenade launchers ordinarily smoke grenades however I'm being told that in Afghanistan they fired high explosive rounds out of these things which should be an interesting surprise for anybody on the receiving end not that the 25 millimeter HG wouldn't do nasty things to you or the coaxial machine gun to the right but an impressive vehicle again I'm very happy to see one operating here in Oswars so I think it'll be a waste if I didn't go for a spin so I hope you found it interesting and informative. I'm going to have some fun.