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Meh… Hatch…Posse Comitatus… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ironically, CAF/RCN mitigation activities pale in comparison comparison to theories and consequence management that OPG and NBP have in place for incidents. Those two moths also take installation (dare some say NCI) security more seriously than the CAF [SAD].

Like your financial advisor would recommend for a diversified portfolio, so too should one not count on a single source of battlespace awareness. F-35s collaborate to an informed, networked battlespace but don’t do it on their own. Recall the Pakistani AEW/AWACS plane that guided the PAF’s...

Definitely a place for multi-static sensor fusion, integration and networking in the current and future in the JADC2-enabled battle space.

In some specific radar bands yes. Not in all sensor bands, particularly longer wavelength radar and EO/IR. The first C in CCA doesn’t mean they have to be flying in formation, so the geometry of the battlespace and distribution of all effectors in the kill chain matters as well, not just the...

If by 6th Gen, you specifically mean the F-47, then perhaps if they are used as an optionally-piloted aircraft. Otherwise, numerous 4/4* Gen fighters would be able to control CCA (collaborative combat aircraft) with applicable connectivity embodied.

The F-35 was a *nod to playing semi-nice with Trumpland. The Rafale would be a “Your yesterday’s superpower, police the world on your own.” I have always been a fan of the Eagle, but the 15EX is a uniquely capable asset that doesn’t fit in with Canada’s….idiom. …or Poland… Didn’t pan out...

If I were King/PM/advisor for a day, in the current climate, here’s what I’d do: - Assess a pure-NORAD min F-35 fleet. I agree with you, it is likely more than 16. I don’t know the particular task and force generation sortie rate to support that since I didn’t do any hard Cheyenne...

Doesn’t make it the best alternative for Canada. Rafale far better if we’re going to split-fleet things. Non-ITAR controlled (Gripen remains ITAR controlled), nuclear weapon capable, future compatibility with *USN CVNs if we go with Rafale M, follow-on fabrication in Canada, etc.

Maybe $7,000/hr of JP-8 burned… No way in H-E- 🏒 🏒 that it an amortized capital cost/O&M institutional all-up costed flying rate.

Likely have the same rate of cold weather issues as the Boeing Super Hornet because, well, for those who didn’t know, they share the same ITAR-controlled engine.

Good thing then that Alberta used the Heritage Fund to reduce its debt so that it has…checks math…$49 per person less provincial tax than…check map…New Brunswick.

Sure. Quibble about numbers. Can’t argue the methodology differences. I won’t bother asking you to give your thoughts on why the Heritage Fund was/is more effective and beneficial for Albertans than the Sovereign Wealth Fund is for Norwegians. INo doubt Albertans are better off in your...

Or an Arctic nation having its military use propane powered vehicles…at temperatures below propane’s boiling point, thus no pressure in the fuel system…and drivers jumping up and down on the bumpers to try and add enough energy to the fuel to get some vapor pressure…

😉 What could have been… $170B vs $9B… https://albertaviews.ca/heritage-trust-fund/

Classic Russian gaslighting/psyops…

Any bets on how long it takes President Tusk to kick out invite US 5 Corps to leave Poland and redeploy to CONUS? https://www.politico.eu/article/not-a-mistake-poland-rebukes-trumps-doubts-about-russian-drone-incursion/

Not all things can be resolved down to a business case. 🍿 In general yes, and those specifically based at Istres Air Base (some of which visited Poland from Istres AB on a Macron-Tusk signaling visit earlier this year), YES. Armament is the ~300kt Air-Sol Moyenne Portée Améliorée ASMPA...

Can CD-E212 launch VLS? I still think KSS-III is the as-yet unannounced awardee. RPN…geeky, but not super geeky… To up-geek the thread, true HP-ophiles call it ‘stack operations’ vice RPN. 🤓

Poland: