There is a lot involved in the BMD mission. It is not simply a matter of slapping SM-3 cans into strike length VLS. There is a whole radar calibration exercise that will make your eyes water, plus the training a certification bill for the crew is lengthy and persihable.
You forgot the part about “clapped out airframes with dodgy wingboxes” and “Transport Canada has a stated policy of never again allowing civil registry of an ex-military airframe” and then, my favourite- “if the feds wade into this, they will own the air tanker problem for Canada as each...
Typhoon is problematic. It took the BAE until…now, to finally develop a radar for it that wasn’t mechanically scanned. That is two decades late to need.
I wonder if he got in a scuffle with a member of the public while off duty and it ended up in a submission hold.
Depending on the details of what led up to the incident, this might not be a slam dunk charge.
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