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Poland is investing in their systems see below article. Unlike Canada which has no systems at all, totally reliant on other countries such as the U.S. for protection. Lancaster 1) Poland Kicks Off Homegrown SHORAD System: Narew The new system, which could cost between $12 and $17 billion...

On Oct/23/2020, see Canada below recently not signing on to mutual air defence systems because we have the obsolete Air Defence Anti-tank system  (ADATS), are we depending on other countries for defence systems? Lancaster 1) NATO partners agree to mutual air defense systems. ...Ministers...

Last August/2/2019, I wrote a letter to MP Harijan Sajjan about do we need quote “Do we need a Canadian long-range missiles like the Patriot, in NATO against potential Russian aggression  in the Baltic’s?" Mr. Sajjan did not respond but his Defence Corporate Secretary- did respond. No details...

These are painful personnel cuts to the British military. When adding the total expected personnel cuts of approximate 42,000 by 2015, of total army navy and air force and civilians, this is an extremely devastated day for the families and to their communities. I remember the military cuts...

The Russians are always testing us and this excursion should remind to us to keep our air force fighters modern with sufficient numbers. According to the air-force technology website quote "The Tu-95 was originally built as a strategic, intercontinental heavy-payload bomber aircraft". Maybe the...

Quote The C2s won't be cascaded to any Canadian units (let alone Reserve units), unless I'm sadly misinformed.  The Leopard 1 ceases to be supported by the spares system and by KMW in 2012 and will rapidly become an orphan fleet To help “Kirkhill” and “ironduke57” out, another reference, to...

Recently I have Emailed to our government and opposition on my concerns on the North Korean missile crissi: To Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Peter Mackay: [email protected]  Oct 16/2006 To Foreign Affairs Critic Keith Martin: [email protected] Bcc: Senator Colin Kenny...

The folowing websites are interesting read on Joint Strike Fighter in Australia ,the first site is short but the second is 67 pages long from the Australian senate committee. 1)joint strike fighter  progress and issues for Australia: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2005-06/06rn32.pdf...

Defence minister 'O' Connor was on today with 'politics with Don  Newman', he didn't want talk details but the 13,000 fulltime and  10,000 reservists will take about  5 years to fulfill .He also said in a months time that the cabinet would approve the defence priorities of 6 to 8  capital...

I don’t know if Canada afford the Joint Strike fighter and how many fighters do we need? Australia is looking at spending about approximately $11.0 U.S. Billion for 100 fighters($110 U.S. million per fighter) and support structure(subcontracting work?) .If  Canada spends any where near Australia...

I have created my own military blog site on the Canadian Military equipments wishlist for 2005 , this blog site was from basically a email letter I sent in April 2005  to minister  of defence minister Bill Graham and chief defence staff General Hillier, I received a reply 9 months later to see...

The Polaris Institute is "twisting the numbers" on their assessment on Canada's 7th largest spending in NATO. Polaris Institute should be using worldwide military expenditure based on GDP, using only NATO is not sufficient since there are 164 other countries who spend on military. According to...

When comparing defense spending to other countries , since Canada  is a mid size  country Canada's GDP should be compared to other hundreds in the world (see www.nationmaster.com) not only to NATO nations. If other countries are spending more on defense that should be a concern to Canadians...

Most countries are purchasing new fighters such as France's Rafaele, Europe's Euro fighter and USA's F-22 which are air-superior fighters. They are expensive and have two engines for reliability. Since we have existing F-18s Hornets that are two engine and are a multi-role (bomber and fighter)...