They could totally be used in Canada. Maritime surveillance, arctic surveillance, the "search" part of SAR...Is it just the way my mind read this, or does the author attempt to convey that they could be used in Canada?
Searching for JT? Checking the surf conditions in Tofino?
Frankly, the people that are outraged about RPAS being used to spy on Canadians (or worse) aren't the people who would trust RCAF PR, or the MSM.
But they also haven’t been complaining about police or military helicopters being able to fly overhead and look at them with the same technology as those drones.Frankly, the people that are outraged about RPAS being used to spy on Canadians (or worse) aren't the people who would trust RCAF PR, or the MSM.
I think there's a disconnect there - we know that fighters, etc use EO/IR systems but I bet Joe Public thinks the pilots literally look down at the target from 30,000' (while wearing a white silk scarf and smoking a pipe) to line up their bomb runs.
Do they still have free-range, non-GMO, gluten-free silk scarves though?
I’d settle for one that doesn’t come off at the seams after 2 months of light use.
Speaking of which… in the DComd RCAFs ask me anything someone brought up the glove/toque conundrum. He said something to the effect that he can’t believe that’s the kind of chicken ?)$@ people have to deal with and he’ll run it past the RCAF chief.
Yup. That was glorious.
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I looked into this; so the authority for wear of operational dress is the formation Commander, so this is absolutely possible.
My gloves that I got from the USCG (Wiley-x Aries) are finally wearing out after ~5 years, and I don’t need to take them off every time I want to use my EFB (they’re cut-off by design on thumb, index, middle-finger). Government price is $54USD a pair. But unlikely to have enough Canadian content to be able to keep us from burning.
