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Well, Whitehorse is about 25+% bigger than Cold Lake.

Small price to pay to defend ones Sovereignty, but that's just my opinion. Maybe we should just sell the North to the US and use the money to plough into our Healthcare System, National Housing Policy, Dental Plan, Livable Wage and no longer have to worry about the 100k people that live in...

Yes and its 30mins longer than the flight time from Cold Lake to Comox.

Yes, I hear you and yes it would be a concern. But how do you propose that our airspace be actually defended? The Americans station thousands and thousands of troops in Alaska, don't they?

Would go a long way in currying favour with the US and adding real assets to the western arctic

Maybe the time has come to turn Whitehorse into a permanent RCAF base..... a squadron of helo's - combined SAR and Transport 1/2 squadron to full squadron of new F35's 3 of the potentially 6 yet to be purchase E-7's. 1 to 2 Polaris or replacements

Which means potentially Comox to help out the Americans over the western artic/Alaska so that they can repurpose similar assets elsewhere.

Thoughts on where these would be stationed? Would they be broken into a East/West coast grouping? East coast - Greenwood and West Coast - Comox?

Because our previous purchase of used F18's went so well.

Question - for this type of system, what sort of 'support envelope' is needed? Is there a need for a dedicated fighter unit to 'cover' them when they are in the air? If so, could this require our initial package of 88 F-35's to be increased by another 1/2 squadron or full squadron?

Its laughable that we've not tooled up and started rolling off LAV's in London for Ukraine. Have the line start working OT and weekends for an increased production run.

Go ask the Germans what its like to sit back and have 10 shells rain down on you and you're only able to throw back 2-4 in return. Sooner or later your side breaks and runs.

I hear that they are exploring buy a fleet of used 737 Super Max's at a real good price and retro fitting them.

Not the angle of, Ukraine starts a 4-6month campaign to hammer as many Russian airbases as possible so that when the F16 arrive late summer that the Ukrainians will go for localized air to air superiority when they try to drive a wedge to the Sea?

In walks Serbia.......

100% true statement. Sadly, the question has to be asked. Have we ever even attempted to do this over the last 40 odd years? Is the closest that we've come to doing something like this is the buying of the spare/cancelled VH-71's for the CH-149's? But all that really did was not increase the...

Why is this even remotely surprising - they did the exact same time when the news broke on the Katyn Massacre.

I see the return of the Franco-Polonia alliance of old. Napoleon and his love of the Winged Hussars version 2.0.

Good - bomb the shit out of Russia. There, I said it.

The 88 won't be enough. It simply comes down to math, time and being Canadian. We originally purchased 138 of them (CF-18's) and we are basically down to around 65 that can operate in a potential warzone.- not sure if this number includes or doesn't include the Aussie purchases. So from 1982...