Recent content by Rainbow1910

There’s a distinct difference in “dare to dream” and “picking the worse horse to bet on”. We do not have an infinite amount of funding, effort, time and political capital to expend on military procurement. Battles need to be chosen in a smart way and we can’t let ourselves be naive. We need to...

A non-existent program from a nation who didn’t even build a 5th generation fighter and can’t seem to build their upgraded 4th gen fighter on a reasonable scale? Perfect option for Canada lol.

The only avenues where it makes sense for a split fleet of 72 F-35A and 72 Gripen E/F is if we're focused on domestic jobs production and developing our aviation industry. I'd argue we can do these items without sticking the RCAF with an inferior platform. In every other metric besides...

And that is a legitimate choice, although I’d point out that a lot of GlobalEye’s successes are still up in the air as far as NATO and a number of NATO nations go. It seems we are willing to give up capability and interoperability at home to suit economics, politics and interoperability abroad...

The article kind of touches on this, atleast tangentially. If we set a trend where any bidder in a procurement with a notable tie to Canadian industry is just going to be the winner regardless of the military implications, I think you are right in the fact that a lot of folks won't even bother...

L3Harris doesn't seem very happy getting blindsided by the GlobalEye announcement with zero heads up, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lawsuit coming from them in the future. https://thelogic.co/news/canada-plan-saab-jets-competitors-answers/

I don’t especially agree, for a few reasons. 1.) Davie wanted an exorbitant amount of money to purchase both Asterix and her hypothetical sister ship outright, primarily because they wanted to long term business of the leasing agreement. The price in 2018 for the outright purchase of Asterix...

Yeah I don't believe this in the slightest, it's "just trust me bro" slop. A 30-60 split makes absolutely zero sense regarding production figures and squadron requirements, and would be a horrible way for the RCAF to come out of this debacle.

The Koreans also signed a large and wide reaching MOU with Alberta as part of their bid, which is going to be especially relevant given the current political environment.

TKMS previously stated Canada would have to enter into negotiations with Germany and Norway to secure production slots even if TKMS was declared the winner, so now that’s off the table? Yeah I don’t believe them at all, this comes off as saying whatever the customer wants to hear to get them...

Hopefully the Canadian Govt can manage to integrate air to air refueling into the GlobalEye, an AEW aircraft on the ground might as well not be one. We're also going to lose out on proper datalinks to AEGIS and F-35 with GlobalEye unless everybody agrees to integrate MADL.

It’s good to know that we’ll have crews ready long before we have submarines delivered given the German timelines 😂

It's interesting to see folks elsewhere acting like the sky is falling and the RCAF has dove onto its sword in accepting a far inferior platform, when turbo-prop powered aircraft are fairly commonplace among international demonstration squadrons. Brunei, New Zealand, Thailand, Chile, Israel...

I would honestly disregard Sub Brief almost entirely as a reliable source of information, he's guilty of a lot of Wikipedia/SeaForces regurgitation and has some pretty questionable political leanings which spill heavily into his work at times. To say they are a serial bullshitter who sometimes...

There are our program figures to look at however without a substantially detailed breakdown of all of the costs alongside taking into consideration the industrial situation around building the aforementioned vessels, it's basically impossible to get a figure you can use to compare to foreign...