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Further muddying the waters: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/south-korea-fighter-jet-f-35-contract-1.7510220 Still uses American engines, however.

I don't believe the EJ230, which was to be a growth variant of the Eurofighter EJ200, was ever fully developed, so presumably there would be a considerable number of years before a Gripen variant with that engine would be available. This seems like vaporware.

Carney just announced the creation of a DPA, and defence spending "well above" 2% of GPD. No timeline though. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6722617

US is still struggling with the Constellation class: https://www.twz.com/sea/first-constellation-frigate-only-10-complete-design-still-being-finalized

Write to your nearest Liberal MP. I've done it several times. I pointed out that there are 2.4 Million registered firearms owners, and that not all of them necessarily want to vote Conservative, but feel compelled to do so because of all the "attacks" on legal firearms owners. I've gotten...

Same today - 14 second reload times. The site is getting almost unusable.

Why? It's public knowledge they are converting 36 airframes to the HEP 2 standard. Why hide the number done to date?

Didn't know this. HEP 2 modernized CF-18s are at Tyndall working with the US. Nice to see those planes are more than vapourware. Anyone know how many airframes have gotten HEP 2, to date?

Colin beat me to this! :)

According to this, they have cut steel on this ship, which is a pretty significant milestone: https://www.navaltoday.com/2025/04/04/canada-construction-starts-on-ccgs-heavy-polar-icebreaker-at-seaspan-shipyards/

I find myself in violent agreement with the author on the whole "reconsider F-35 purchase" issue: https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/04/04/the_f-35_fiasco_canada_britain_and_the_death_of_grand_strategy_1101949.html

My Army context is Quartermaster, but I suspect it's a Quality function of some sort.

Further progress on JSS 1: https://www.seaspan.com/stories/powering-up-celebrating-the-successful-switchboard-activation-on-jss1/

And some reasoned views from Billie Flynn, who does know what he's talking about: The F-35 Debate | Billie Flynn - My Blog

Hmm. Looks like Denmark has not fallen prey to illogic: Denmark Weighs Expanding Its Fleet of US F-35 Fighters Despite Tensions over Greenland

And a major engineering challenge, so I have my doubts. A great deal of US content in Gripen, as this graphic shows:

If you're lucky, and symptoms come back, it can be usually be mitigated if caught early with a ppi. My daughter had a similar story with nut allergies, and ended up with EOE. She was scoped several times, and had biopsies done, so that diagnosis was confirmed, but because it was caught early...

The Finns have developed a concept for wheeled artillery specifically for coastal defense: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/03/patria-showcases-new-self-propelled-155mm-artillery-for-finnish-navy-coastal-defence/

I'm finding the same today. Slow to load.

Breaking news: NGAD is approved, will be built by Boeing, and will be known as the F47. https://breakingdefense.com/2025/03/boeing-wins-sixth-gen-fighter-ngad-air-force-lockheed-loss-trump-hegseth/