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    The Royal Canadian Navy - Sinking you, but politely

    Drach is simply amazing in regards to the way he delivers the content. I've wasted dozens (maybe even a hundred) hours listening to his musings on naval history. It's well worth checking out his YouTube channel IMO.
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    With regards to the F-18E/3 The unfortunate fact of the matter is that we will be buying into a platform that is reaching it's end of life (in terms of it's future capacity to be adapted/expanded for operational requirements moving forward). This will probably be the last manned aircraft that...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Truth...five more years down the road and no end in sight.
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Sad but true... If I was a millennial I'd embed the standard Metallica video here. But I'm not. So I won't. But it's sad...and it's true. And this makes me sad (not to mention frustrated). How can this keep on being a political football, perpetually @ third and long? This is probably SAAB...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    As Stevenson notes, The 104 was an absolute beast and an ongoing nightmare for the "bad guys". There were just not a lot of ways to interdict them unless the intercept profiles were impeccably flown and the PVO's radar net was able to maintain contact. I have no seat time in fast air, but I do...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    And therein lies the fundamental issue... Grrr...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Civilian here...don't beat on me. In my experience we have always had a "special" relationship with the USA. This dates back to the 1930's IIRC? Throughout the early 1950's we made a concerted effort (CF-100 program and investment in Pinetree/Mid-Canada) to prove that we could pull our weight...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Or "less" than nothing. Which is the ridiculous "Capability Gap" rhetoric and the Liberal's answer of flushing $1B (on bagged airframes & spare parts from the RAAF) down the toilet (for the sake of "optics"), in support of the facade they created two years ago. NUTS. Grrrr.
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Agreed. The potential value over the entire life of the program is an intangible, but given the close integration of our nativeĀ  industries (that are already well into the program at this point) and their geographic location (relative to the main assembly point), it would be academic to assume...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Link to the MLI report... https://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/assessing-damage-canadas-fighter-replacement-fiasco-new-mli-report/...this just keeps getting weirder and weirder. There's not a lot in here that has not already been the subject of speculative discussion. However? If the author's...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    And from a brief review of this data set it is pretty apparent that the SAAB machine is essentially useless for our purposes. Which leads me to believe that it will probably be chosen...the recent CBC article seems to think it's the way to go. But hey? Bombardier can build it in Cartierville...
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    CF-188 Hornet, Canada's jet fighter

    Point taken. You're correct in all of your statements given above. I lived and worked (PSAC/Heating Plant) in Cold Lake throughout the period where the CF-188 entered service. As such, I saw all of the above as it came on line over the course of IOC for the Hornet units. What I'm getting at is...
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    CF-188 Hornet, Canada's jet fighter

    Thanks for the prompt reply sir! Interesting tack they chose, but it makes sense to differentiate these machines from the rest of the fleet as I'm sure there will be variances in maintenance requirements. Perhaps other matters as well. I'm on the fence as far as this particular initiative; to...
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