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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Russia's next generation fighter (Su-57), Long range drone (Ohtoknik) and Bomber (Tupolev PAK DA) are all low observable designs, so thats just factually incorrect. Also given the development of hypersonics and new low observable cruise missiles, we need platforms with the best sensor...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    You realize that Canada was part of the requirement setting process for the JSF partnership, and its primary input into them was cold weather operations. We helped ensure that the aircraft would be sufficiently capable in our arctic. So the claim that its somehow incapable to operate in such an...
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    F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)

    Oh, which remote controlled fighter drone do you speak of? I'll take anything that has a program of record.
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    F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)

    First F-35 on NORAD Duty will happen next year when the 148th is fully stood up in Vermont.
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    I think you've misread what I was trying to say here Pete, I didn't have a problem with the Asterix or how it was pushed through, although the story of how it came about still has a lot of pork sausage ground in than is generally understood in the public. Rather I find it funny how the Davie...
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Oh... the Davie Clause! Section 3.1 (G) of the GCR... Where if you need an urgent "Interim" capability, you can get something outside of the normal process. Hmmm, urgent requirement to address a capability gap... "Interim" capability... where have I heard that before?
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    We had an extended discussion of this a page earlier.
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    By Jack Granatstein: "Why Canada’s casualties were so high in Normandy"

    So thanks for this post, because I feel like it was an aspect that was sorely lacking. Reading Granatstein article seems like a throwback to the general level of scholarship on Canada (writ commonwealth) experience in Normandy that existed over 20 years ago. First, I feel like the title and...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    So while I agree with your conclusion, the numbers cited by Vanshillar are incorrect. The Super Hornet, even with three tanks, does not outrange the F-35. the only way that this is plausibly possible is if you drop tanks in flight, which is not an option. A quick check of the NATOPS, which were...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    According to that suggestion, the F-35 would win competition A purely on capability and cost, even without the sunk cost advantages it would get from having B.
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    No, this is potentially a huge development in the project... there was a lot of major uncertainty going on, and this may be the first piece of good news in awhile.
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    I'd not lay the blame completely on the RCAF here on the choice of system: they've been under financial pressures to find efficiencies for the past 20 years, constrained by a political desire to keep the current contractual arrangements. The extension of the contract last year to 2024, despite...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    No, or at least that's a secondary issue at best. Leslie is/was a loose cannon. He's said things that has made others question his absolute loyalty to the party, while his last years in DND also raise questions about his competence and relationship with other uniformed individuals. I'm not sure...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    So a few considerations. So when you say stealth jet, I'm just going to say F-35: I assume you're making a number of assumptions which are just not accurate to the actual situation. First: the real "cost" of the F-35 is its avionics - the airframe for 5th Gen fighters is about 15~20% of the...
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    Royal Canadian Air Force headed to mission in Africa ‘very soon’: top general

    One can argue that's an accurate description for both of them.
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