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  1. Baz

    Base closures?

    Shearwater isn’t a base. It’s part of Halifax. The just put $400m’ish into it. The runway was refurbished as helo only. It would take $100m to reopen it for fixed wing, plus the locals would be pissed due to noise. Leave Shearwater and Greenwood as they are, unless… In the current...
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    Sunset of 419 Squadron, for now

    Wrong, maybe no. Misleading, absolutely. Three; Cyclone.
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    AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

    Given there is a shortage of tankers amongst our allies, they may want to shop it around. NATO itself may think about it, or a group of countries like NATO airlift, MRTT, AWACS, AGS, etc…
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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

    I felt the same way towards the end with the Sea King. They were trying to make them all green, instead of making the amount needed and reasonable green. Result was a bunch of green aircraft at 8 am that were red at 9. I commented that 12AMS mission of “maximizing aircraft availability “ was...
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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

    Somebody should implement the patent Expendable sonobuoy flight kit with aerodynamically assisted sonobuoy separation. Cheap, quick, minimal infrastructure. Add to that a simple expendable UAV with a software defined radio that receives a block of sono channels and retransmits them on another...
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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

    Yep… and I’m not sure that we know the availability of the Cyclone enough yet to validate that number. Nor am I sure that two airborne all the time is the right answer either.
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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

    The number of helos we bought, like the number of ships, is that which is need to (roughly) support two CTGs (on a rotation) plus a single deployer (on a rotation), plus training, plus maintenance, with no attrition spares. If you're in a CTG, you don't need two helos on a ship. A CTG was...
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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

    Just don't interact with the locals near 'bouts those ways. They're pissed about this. Of course, somebody is always pissed about something; imagine, DND using their own restricted land for a logical military reason, and not leaving it so people can go birdwatching there!
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    LGBTQ Stuff (split from other political threads)

    Does that include the people who need mental support by VAC because of their CF service? On a bigger level… so we set up a system that everyone has to follow, yet anyone that doesn’t fit in that system should be ignored? But the people who set up that system have twisted it to their own...
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    AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

    I understand that, but I’m not sure the Canadian public knows, cares, or ever will care. I’ve always been confused about the concept of the CTG post Cold War . In large part the CTG developed as a convoy escort force. We are the only navy I know of that has the concept of a CTG with nothing...
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    AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

    Both the Americans and the British do that….
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    AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

    I don't disagree. I'm not sure how the RCAF or the RCN are going to regen if they keep doing the same things they always have though. Besides the obvious needed influx of money (competitive pay commensurate with the conditions of service solves a lot of recruitment and retention issues), both...
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    AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

    This really belongs in the 148 thread... I'm not sure I agree with your sentiments, as it doesn't match what I experienced in the community. The number of Cyclones matched the cancelled maritime variant of the EH101, 28. It had been lowered from 35 prior to Chretien coming into power. My...
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    AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

    Rotomax got 54 containers as spares and have returned at least one to flight status, of the 6 they bought. They aren’t giving any to Ukraine because they are going to generate revenue with them. At least 6 went to museums. One of ours was airworthy when we got it, it’s still got oil and...
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    AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

    Yet the back end of the Cyclone design was changed to put it sideways to make it easier to remove everything as a result of SCTF, which wasn’t free. Ironically, if we had kept a few Sea Kings, strip all the avionics and put in a new cockpit, they would have made on excellent HADR and literal...
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    AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

    This, this, and this. I too bemoan the missed opportunity to get the Mistrals. I also wish that the Karel Doorman class had been available when we were shopping for JSS vice an AOR (which is what the Berlins are). I think they would be perfectly suited to HADR as Canada has no need for...
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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

    Historically this is due to the strong linkages between GDMS-C and DREA, and certain personalities in both. I've worked with a couple of amazing math guys (the heart of acoustics), one in DREA and one in GDMS-C. These linkages are still present for the RCN, but for the RCAF (Auroras and...
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    The Geopolitics of it all

    Fishbone... sorry for rambling. I agree we've been under the influence of communists. It is there stated aim to remake the world in the image they want. We've also been under the influence of capitalists. In my opinion they've created even more havoc. They've certainly been more responsible...
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    The Geopolitics of it all

    I will give another thought bubble: when one of the historically disadvantaged members of society hear European males say society broke when we started to move away from those same European males holding all the power and wealth, what reaction are they supposed to have? Many people of a...
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    The Geopolitics of it all

    Modern history, which I'll define as from the start of the industrial revolution for the sake of my thoughts, has always included a struggle between socialism and capitalism. Even though they can co-exist, they find themselves pitted against each other. As the old western hereditary systems...
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