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The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)
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A bit more detail from Politico. One of the waylaid parts may have been a cockpit canopy.
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Often. From my experience at Returns.Never
Not my problem anymore though..... got any busted optics that need attention? NVG's, Elcans, etc?
Halifax Tar
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This is how I imagine you.
Türkiye's Yusuf Dikeç’s iconic pose takes sports world by storm
Yusuf Dikeç, whose unique shooting style helped secure a silver medal for Türkiye in the 10m mixed team air pistol event at the Paris 2024 Olympics, has...
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Plus we’ve put down money on long lead items for a batch of 14
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Isn’t he the guy the IOC refs stopped from lighting up a dart at the competition range?This is how I imagine you.
Türkiye's Yusuf Dikeç’s iconic pose takes sports world by storm
Yusuf Dikeç, whose unique shooting style helped secure a silver medal for Türkiye in the 10m mixed team air pistol event at the Paris 2024 Olympics, has...
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For the record, I quit the lungs darts 2 days after stalker went down.
But god damn, I do love that smell.
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Our first F-35 just flew!
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Canada’s First F-35 Conducts Maiden Flight
The Royal Canadian Air Force’s first F-35A Lightning II flew for the first time, marking a milestone in Canada’s controversial fighter acquisition program
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I will miss the false canopy.
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I miss being able to tell which countries plane you're looking at simply by how it was painted overall instead of squinting at tiny roundels because everybody's stealth coating is identical...
What's the deal with the tail number? Temporary? We change the way we number our aircraft?
Also... it drives me nuts they insist on painting the corporate Government of Canada branding on RCAF aircraft like that. Looks out of place on the F-35.
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Lots of "elbows up" people are very upset on X and FB, they actually thought Canada wasn't getting these aircraft.Our first F-35 just flew!
Canada’s First F-35 Conducts Maiden Flight
The Royal Canadian Air Force’s first F-35A Lightning II flew for the first time, marking a milestone in Canada’s controversial fighter acquisition program
Me? Damn, hell ya. Need 87 more. AT least.
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We wouldn’t be in the mess of having to buy fighters right now (with our backs against the wall), if successive governments, supported by the now “elbows up people”, had not continually kicked the fighter replacement project down the road…
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Agreed. What still concerns me is that when Trump is gone, a certain segment of the population is going to be "Why spend money on defence?"
I tell people I know that "can't understand defence spending" that money spent on national defence is like insurance. You hate paying the bill and maybe don't think it is neccessary, but damn when you need it, your glad as F you have it.
Now on another note, the Mover and Gonky show (two former USN fighter pilots on Youtube with RCAF fighter friends) have said the F15EX would be the best choice for Canada's sovereign defence role.
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Probably, but the F-15EX isn’t going to happen if the F-35 is just barely tolerated in Ottawa…
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Lets say its 2028 and Trump is leaving. Carney swings a deal to get 5% of F15EX parts made here, brands it as "more Canadian jobs and strong sovereignty" or some similar bullshit.
Its all in the spin
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We’ll see where this goes, but it could be the latest format for aircraft regs.
Historically, CAF/newRCAF aircraft registration used to be Cx-1## for the type designator and each aircraft had a ### fin number that combined with the type designator was that aircraft’s individual registration Cx-1#####, sometimes short-formed to just the numeric 1#####.
The CC-330 Husky (mil A330-based MRTT) changed that, in that the first number of the type designator changed from a 1 to a 3.
I doubt we’ll see use of the CF-1## format for the F-35 as the 135 type designator was already used for the Twin Huey, albeit as a CH-135 (vice potential CF-135). Same logic as why the CF-18 was actually type designated CF-188, as 118 was already taken by the CH-118 Iroquois (CUH-1H single Huey).
The letter A would be a new exception to the all-numeric six-numeral individual registration, but if the leading 1 to a 3 change happened, no reason why the A couldn’t also be a new version of CAF/RCAF type designation and individual
tail number/registration.
That first ‘snuck’ onto CAF aircraft in ‘93, with Chretien’s pan-government rebranding. I was at an airshow and a civilian came up to me and asked what was with the ‘Canada Post’ writing on the aircraft (a VIP CC-144 Chllenger) beside mine (which didn’t yet have the new GoC letterhead ‘Canada’ painted on it)? It was the first time I had ever seen that. I laughed and said, “Hunh, I don’t know? I’ve never seen that before.” I still think it looks bureaucratically like a letterhead font.
