Recent content by Good2Golf

I’ll match your pedantry and raise you…who designed and made the Phantom?

Sound less awkward than saying “ex-common law sister-in-law” 😆

Je ne sais pas…

That wasn’t meant as a comment on your post, but rather about whether IP transfer would have truly been a requirement. Much of all of this is Kabuki theatre, tbh. Things can be pursued or denied, made to work or not, based on will or desire. My point about Rafale M integrating with and...

I don’t believe that. Rafale M is the only non-US fighter to integrate and operate from a Nimitz-class CVN, George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) to be precise… Alan Williams, ADM(Mat) back when he signed Canada in to the JSF Program, he was clear that Canada would participate in manufacture, whether it...

We’ll know about this one in 50 years, or after the JFK dossier is released, whichever occurs first. 👍🏼

After the Trump administration had the Epstein files, and after he was killed himself…

Meh… Hatch…Posse Comitatus… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ironically, CAF/RCN mitigation activities pale in comparison comparison to theories and consequence management that OPG and NBP have in place for incidents. Those two moths also take installation (dare some say NCI) security more seriously than the CAF [SAD].

Like your financial advisor would recommend for a diversified portfolio, so too should one not count on a single source of battlespace awareness. F-35s collaborate to an informed, networked battlespace but don’t do it on their own. Recall the Pakistani AEW/AWACS plane that guided the PAF’s...

Definitely a place for multi-static sensor fusion, integration and networking in the current and future in the JADC2-enabled battle space.

In some specific radar bands yes. Not in all sensor bands, particularly longer wavelength radar and EO/IR. The first C in CCA doesn’t mean they have to be flying in formation, so the geometry of the battlespace and distribution of all effectors in the kill chain matters as well, not just the...

If by 6th Gen, you specifically mean the F-47, then perhaps if they are used as an optionally-piloted aircraft. Otherwise, numerous 4/4* Gen fighters would be able to control CCA (collaborative combat aircraft) with applicable connectivity embodied.

The F-35 was a *nod to playing semi-nice with Trumpland. The Rafale would be a “Your yesterday’s superpower, police the world on your own.” I have always been a fan of the Eagle, but the 15EX is a uniquely capable asset that doesn’t fit in with Canada’s….idiom. …or Poland… Didn’t pan out...

If I were King/PM/advisor for a day, in the current climate, here’s what I’d do: - Assess a pure-NORAD min F-35 fleet. I agree with you, it is likely more than 16. I don’t know the particular task and force generation sortie rate to support that since I didn’t do any hard Cheyenne...