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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    I don't think we'll have a CDC by 1930 ;)
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    A Deeply Fractured US

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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    It's not a question of rapid replacement, it's a question of structural deterioration to the point of being so unsafe sea that not even a NWO can wave it away.
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Five years? I admire your optimism. I'd think it's closer to five months before the risk of an "unplanned conversion from surface to subsurface combatant" is so high that not even a NWO can ignore the risk.
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    FWSAR (CC130H, Buffalo, C27J, V22): Status & Possibilities

    Hercs are all subject to ITAR restrictions, as I understand it. Add the age and fact that the wing boxes were taken from USCG aircraft retired due to hours and cycles that were still younger than the CAF wing boxes they replaced, and you don't necessarily have the most attractive of sales pitches.
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    FWSAR (CC130H, Buffalo, C27J, V22): Status & Possibilities

    Given the hours and cycles on the frames, and that we cannibalized USCG frames retired for age to rebuild them, there's not a lot of life left in them.
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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    NDA 294 is not a part of the CSD.
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    Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

    Today I learned that CAF MPs are basically WWII German submariners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Raccoon
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    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    Testing will continue as a lifecycle function, since technology continues to progress through the life of the platform.
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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    The popular belief that "consent to serve" is universal for Res F members unless placed on active service has no basis in law, regulation or policy. QR&O volume 1 chapter 9, article 9.04 (2) explicitly grants authority to order members of the Primary Reserve to train a maximum of 60 days Class...
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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    Although, strictly speaking, NDA 130 does explicitly include NDA Part VII, so failure to attend parade could be the basis for a court martial (with maximum fines as laid out in the NDA).
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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    It's under Part VII of the NDA, Offences Triable by Civil Courts.
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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    The term "summary conviction" refers to the civilian legal system, not to the military justice system for summary infractions as laid out in regulations.
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    Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

    Po-tay-tp, po-tah-to
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    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Oh Fatherland, Fatherland Show us the sign Your children have waited to see The morning will come when the world is mine Tomorrow belongs to me
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    CAN-USA Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

    Or will they need to curb Congress's power to further enable presidential overreach?
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