The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

[KevinB]

That's a Quebec thing: That's how we recognize one another on the beaches of Florida, Virginia or Cuba.

Or Russians and other Eastern Europeans.

 

[RangerRay]

Or Russians and other Eastern Europeans.

And Germans.

 

[CBH99]

No, I never wore it again.

I was much younger and fresher then, and, as I said, Speedos were formal wear at Baggersees (literal translation: "digger lake"). They were very common, especially among many larger and older than I was then, and some wore less.

You would not believe how much stress a string bikini can take.

The idea that speedo were considered formal wear ANYWHERE at some point is still low key blowing my mind...

I thought I lived somewhat dangerously from time to time. But it's reading things like the above that humbly remind me we don't even hold a candle to the previous generations

 

[Loachman]

Isn’t the mantra (for nude beaches, but I guess it counts here) “those who do so are the ones you wish didn’t do so”?

That was generally true in the Caracalla Therme Home (the outdoor sauna shown post-dates my time) in Baden-Baden as well - the older and fatter, the skimpier the bikini. Bathing suits were required throughout, but were not permitted in the solarium upstairs, which included the saunas and a bar - I will never again have a beer before entering a 500C sauna. Guess who did and did not wrap themselves in towels.

There were a few delightful exceptions, though.

 

[Loachman]

The idea that speedo were considered formal wear ANYWHERE at some point is still low key blowing my mind...

That was in comparison to another choice.

 

[AirDet]

That was generally true in the Caracalla Therme Home (the outdoor sauna shown post-dates my time) in Baden-Baden as well - the older and fatter, the skimpier the bikini. Bathing suits were required throughout, but were not permitted in the solarium upstairs, which included the saunas and a bar - I will never again have a beer before entering a 500C sauna. Guess who did and did not wrap themselves in towels.

There were a few delightful exceptions, though.

The Caracalla Therme was a great place. My ex and I used to go there all the time.

 

[Good2Golf]

Sabotage Confirmed At Norwegian Air Base

A cut cable at the Norwegian airfield was announced amid fears of sabotage at military bases and concerning drone activity in Germany. A cut cable at the Norwegian airfield was announced amid fears of sabotage at military bases in Germany.

www.twz.com

 

[SeaKingTacco]

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Sabotage Confirmed At Norwegian Air Base

A cut cable at the Norwegian airfield was announced amid fears of sabotage at military bases and concerning drone activity in Germany. A cut cable at the Norwegian airfield was announced amid fears of sabotage at military bases in Germany.

www.twz.com

Is it almost “go time o’clock”?

 

[Good2Golf]

Is it almost “go time o’clock”?

Да!

 

[SeaKingTacco]

So, about hardening fighter facilities in Canada….

 

[SupersonicMax]

So, about hardening fighter facilities in Canada….

A HAS wouldn’t have helped.

 

[Good2Golf]

A HAS wouldn’t have helped.

Great relief that we know we’ll never have to worry about hardened facilities for our aircraft in Canada.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

A HAS wouldn’t have helped.

No kidding.

No point in doing anything.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

Yeah, its not like Russia could ever fly and operative into Edmonton, have them rent a car to drive up to Cold Lake, and play monkeyshines....

Geography is our security, right?

 

[Colin Parkinson]

A HAS wouldn’t have helped.

Hardening a airfield is more than just HAS. Electrical systems, fuel, water. All the things that keep a airfield going. Hardening those systems removes weak points without significant costs and can be done as part of upgrades and modernizations.

 

[Quirky]

HAZs in Canada lol, we aren’t that important.

 

[dimsum]

HAZs in Canada lol, we aren’t that important.

“An alliance is as strong as its weakest member” and so on.

Geographically-speaking, yeah we are that important despite what all Canadian parties seem to think.

 

[GK .Dundas]

I suspect that most Canadians are blissfully unaware that we actually do share a maritime border with Russia..
The moment they hear that it involves some distance over water and furthmore that it's in the Arctic and their eyes glaze over.
After all we're safe courtesy of all that ice and water, right ?

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

We do not share a border with Russia anymore than France shares a border with Algeria. The border are at 12 NM from the last land. The Arctic ocean is almost two and a half time the size of the Mediterranean sea.

The fact that all Arctic nations claim the rights to resources exploitation in the Arctic all the way to the North pole on the basis of "continental" shelf extension does not make the border common or shared.