Recent content by ytz

Will they all be based together. Or do they plan to put a battery of HIMARS in each region? Curious how this works with the recent reorg.

You definitely haven't had that conversation recently. I have friends at LM over here. And they are looking at expanding in Canada. Particularly in domains where they perceive less competition domestically and high payoff. An LM space division in Canada would have a 50/50 chance on every...

There are ways to do this. Just not in the way that is being pitched now. If we really wanted to build military aircraft, we could: 1) Push drones and CCAs where requirements are less stringent and where there are more partners available than the US; 2) Push Bombardier to become more of an...

Just a reminder for those of you who have forgotten some basic military principles and survivability doctrine. This applies to everything from a basic troop on a patrol to a fighter jet. The Gripen argument is that their EW is so good that they will not be acquired even though they will be...

Cool. Try to be less sure than about airplanes. I don't assert definitively which boats we should buy. Cause I am fairly certain I would know less than the black suiters who have spend 8 hrs a day looking at boats and 8 hrs per day dreaming about them at night. Stealth is just one advantage...

Unfortunately correct. We're probably going to get 60 - 70 Gripens and it's going to be a disaster. We don't have enough people and we've already started the F-35 transition. The transition crew was moving this APS. So when we get Gripens in the 2030s, they'll end up sitting there...

Maybe. But the adveraries have improved too. The Gripen E has just added basics that all aircraft need these days. IRST. GaN radar. MAWS. It's amazing marketing that they pitch this as revolutionary when every other aircraft built today has this.

You're clearly not an air or fighter/weapons community guy. That's the benchmark exercise for NATO because it's the one that is less scripted and has the most dissimilar platform interaction. It's probably the closest thing the west has to actual wars. And the last time a plane scored this...

Patently wrong. https://theaviationist.com/2017/02/28/red-flag-confirmed-f-35-dominance-with-a-201-kill-ratio-u-s-air-force-says/ I really wish people would learn to listen to the professionals.

Define "handle".

And the Aurora fleet was probably capable of covering more with fewer aircraft. The Argus literally had a reciprocating engine and vacuum tube electronics. The numbers game is just silly. Especially in the age of drones. A single Global Hawk can survey 100 000 square kilometers in 24 hrs.

This is my pet question in every townhall. Great to see GOFOs get wide eyed. There's work being done finally to reform the CAF intelligence and IT enterprises. Especially the secure cloud stuff. And a lot of projects are demanding automated PED and archiving.

So still 50% smaller than a Halifax. Give or take. But getting back to the topic at hand, what lack of air coverage are you concerned about?

We are going from 5 Polaris to 9 Huskies. That alone is an 80% increase in capacity in that fleet. With AAR specifically, we are going from 2 Polaris tankers with 88 000 lbs of fuel capacity to 8 Husky tankers with 111 000 lbs of fuel capacity. It's over 500% increase in fuel offload...

Sure. And the AOPS. But those will all either have organic helicopters and/or VTOL drones onboard. And subs aren't generally followed around by aircraft. So again, what's the gap here? Do you think every combatant is followed around by fighters? Also, I'm not sure I'd call the CMMC a...