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Biggest problem with Canada and military purchases , Canada does not buy new equipment every year, every decade or even every generation. How does an in country industry survive from 1 generation to the next if there is no interest in new equipment, how does the company keep up to date on the...

The liberal spin will that bring this man to the house on the hill helped Poland kick their investigation into high gear. Poland announces request for extradition orders. Applauses were premature congratuling themselves for this great plan they came up with. In actuality some staffers should...

de Haviland Canada was sold off to Viking Air of Victoria, they purchased the rights to the Chipmunk, the Beaver, the Otter, Caribou, Buffalo, Twin Otter and the Dash 7, Dash 8 models. They are not building new designs or designing new aircraft, they are building from older designs. Only new...

I am speechless, but does anyone really think a 98 year old man would take up arms and fight in this day and age? No one did a background check, or security check, just bring anyone in claiming to be a vet and give acknowledgement to for his or her service? Reminds me of a war crime...

The Canadair Sabre is a jet fighter aircraft built by Canadair under licence from North American Aviation. A variant of the North American F-86 Sabre, it was produced until 1958 and used primarily by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) until replaced with the Canadair CF-104 in 1962. Several...

If you are a MASH fan you might remember the 5 o'clock Charlie episode 1973, "Every day for the past six weeks, at 5:00 o'clock p.m. on the nose, a North Korean "washout from Kamikaze school" has let loose a bomb in the general direction of the hospital's sub-ammo dump. Very affectionately...

Do not worry Bombardier would of ended up rebuilding the Arrow and ruining everything about it in no time. Canadian companies build and design great products but no internal market, and the international market unless it is manufactured in the US , for the most part it is gone. Canadian...

I am colour blind, so I went thru some of this stuff. The Medical Officer is not looking at the condition for today or this week, or next week or next month or next year. They are looking at your condition could progress in 1 to 10 years or longer. You could be deployed in that time period and...

Everyone thought this aircraft the end all be all. It was a great aircraft for its time and limited testing done before it was chopped up. Anyone who thinks this aircraft would still be flying and still keeping up with the aircraft of today or yesterday has to seriously think about going back...

I realize some of the people on this forum could be considered experts in their fields, others like me are just advanced readers and can consume a lot of facts and ask questions if we do not understand or comment on what we do understand. So here are my questions, besides the experts here, is...

they do not even looked chained down, just a block in front of the track. Or did I miss something

the drone pilot was offering to defect?

that looks like guys getting ready to do battle on The Rat Patrol. Yes i am old

Just my opinion and nothing more. The LAV family, the AVGP family and the M113 family are good vehicles until you try and shoehorn every possible variant out of the same box. In the civilian world, they make a fleet of trucks and each truck does one job. Lets use the a fire truck as an...

Corporal to General, that is a big career move. almost seems like a walter claim to fame

please tell us how you really feel about this highly promoted officer

Been out of the infantry for longer than I care to admit and what does a private really know or understand about life on the battlefield besides he or she is going to be the body trying to stop the enemy advance or be the advancing force upon the enemy? I personally think every NATO Army...

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/first-atomic-bombs-black-lancasters https://www.key.aero/article/lancaster-nuclear-bomber https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=221475 lots of interesting reading material on the lancaster with atomic bombing profile, and air to air refueling.

If we forget the present ways of thinking and think like 1940s persons. The Second World War had been waging in some place for almost 8 years in places. Japan and China had been fighting since 07 July 1937. Various sources China reporting over 20 million dead, Japan 1.1 to 1.9 million troops...

2 Cats were on the move along the 417 eastbound, caught them on haulers just west of Ottawa around noon today.