Drach is simply amazing in regards to the way he delivers the content. I've wasted dozens (maybe even a hundred) hours listening to his musings on naval history. It's well worth checking out his YouTube channel IMO.
With regards to the F-18E/3
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that we will be buying into a platform that is reaching it's end of life (in terms of it's future capacity to be adapted/expanded for operational requirements moving forward).
This will probably be the last manned aircraft that...
Sad but true...
If I was a millennial I'd embed the standard Metallica video here.
But I'm not.
So I won't.
But it's sad...and it's true.
And this makes me sad (not to mention frustrated).
How can this keep on being a political football, perpetually @ third and long?
This is probably SAAB...
As Stevenson notes, The 104 was an absolute beast and an ongoing nightmare for the "bad guys".
There were just not a lot of ways to interdict them unless the intercept profiles were impeccably flown and the PVO's radar net was able to maintain contact.
I have no seat time in fast air, but I do...
Civilian here...don't beat on me.
In my experience we have always had a "special" relationship with the USA.
This dates back to the 1930's IIRC?
Throughout the early 1950's we made a concerted effort (CF-100 program and investment in Pinetree/Mid-Canada) to prove that we could pull our weight...
Or "less" than nothing.
Which is the ridiculous "Capability Gap" rhetoric and the Liberal's answer of flushing $1B (on bagged airframes & spare parts from the RAAF) down the toilet (for the sake of "optics"), in support of the facade they created two years ago.
NUTS.
Grrrr.
Agreed. The potential value over the entire life of the program is an intangible, but given the close integration of our nativeĀ industries (that are already well into the program at this point) and their geographic location (relative to the main assembly point), it would be academic to assume...
Link to the MLI report... https://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/assessing-damage-canadas-fighter-replacement-fiasco-new-mli-report/...this just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
There's not a lot in here that has not already been the subject of speculative discussion.
However? If the author's...
And from a brief review of this data set it is pretty apparent that the SAAB machine is essentially useless for our purposes.
Which leads me to believe that it will probably be chosen...the recent CBC article seems to think it's the way to go.
But hey? Bombardier can build it in Cartierville...
Point taken.
You're correct in all of your statements given above. I lived and worked (PSAC/Heating Plant) in Cold Lake throughout the period where the CF-188 entered service. As such, I saw all of the above as it came on line over the course of IOC for the Hornet units.
What I'm getting at is...
Thanks for the prompt reply sir!
Interesting tack they chose, but it makes sense to differentiate these machines from the rest of the fleet as I'm sure there will be variances in maintenance requirements. Perhaps other matters as well.
I'm on the fence as far as this particular initiative; to...
10 year+ lurker around here. Finally took the plunge and signed in.
On topic (CF-18): Is there anyone around these parts who's "in the know" with regards to how these RAAF birds will be integrated with our existing tail numbers? Adding new from 188798/188940, or "filling in blanks" for aircraft...
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