Recent content by dapaterson

Those all qualify as investments in the 3.5% / 1.5% defence investments.

No, it would not. As I understand, the "Mobilization Reserve" is intended to target those with skills of value, not individuals looking to join and learn. So fewer "I am a thoracic surgeon who wants to be an infanteer corporal on the weekend", and more "I am a diesel mechanic who is ready to...

Nah, the CAF is short on stokers.

Obviously the solution is electric aircraft and solar panels on the wings ;)

Sorry - brain fart where I confused AAR with a radar system and not air to air refueling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalEye

Was thinking AEW, not fighters.

RCAF (and others) apparently weren't listening to the PM on 09 June: "We should no longer send three quarters of our defence capital spending to America." https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2025/06/09/prime-minister-carney-announces-governments-plan-rebuild-rearm-and

Far too much to unpack, but let's go for some low hanging fruit: * The priority of lack thereof is in the Army's court. * It's the Army, owner of the requirement, who define what IOC is. It will never be something as facile as "pull lanyard, make boom". Integration, test and evaluation...

Your assertion that there's a lack of urgency. Those delivering on those projects are support occupations and civilians. Their capacity has been ignored and reduced continually to protect Potemkin paper units. Traditionally, "a sense of urgency" is used as an excuse for "I wasted my time and...

The bilateral problems with the US have everything to do with the US President.

I am glad that IFM is the only project in all of Defence, and that there are no interdependencies, and nothing complex about it, and no need for priorities and triage, and that all the support people are such lazy fucks and that they are the source of all problems.

How is IOC defined? Normally it involves trained crews, equipment, materiel and infrastructure, all in initial quantities. Because the CAF leadership for generations, drawn from operational occupations, has systemically underfunded and ignored the sustainment enterprise, relatively simple...