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I never expected my question to expand to 57 pages of input.

The US Air Force has already expanded the life span of the F35 frame to 2070, wanna bet that Canada will sur pass the 2070s? The USMC F35B is already having life span issues due to structural problems, looking at 2026 as retirement dates for block block 2 frames, and spare parts shortages...

My thought was if they could ship a US Navy DDG on a heavy lift ship they could do the same for any ship. Our ships are much smaller etc

A NATO standard in Canada and used by Canadians is a huge pipe dream. ( We Canadians can only dream of pipe lines) The NATO standard would have to include made in Canada engines, steel and made in a Eastern Ship yard, but would prefer a Quebec ship yard. I think and believe nothing will ever...

With modern day cruise ships wanting to visit the North and some visiting already. If there was an accident, we are looking at hours, if not days to reach anyone because of weather and distance. Forget an armed invasion (that would never happen ;-) ) but a rescue mission. 1991 Boxtop flight...

I just read a story on CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-canadian-armed-forces-arctic-russia-1.6702611 Would Canada even know if X country landed troops or aircraft or tourists on some remote Arctic Island? If the answer is Yes , How long would it take our Forces or People to...

Being able to read a map, to plan a paddle in camping trip is a great skill to have. Tried to learn compass and map skills in boy scouts, but was never taught how to set North on my compass, or how to take a proper bearing or how to walk one. Now able to do that and get some where is great.

When you build ships every 15 years, you can keep the skills and suppliers up to date, but when you do it every 40 years, skilled trades retire and there is no one to teach the skills to the new guys. We end up paying 3 times the going rate for those skills because the lack of ship building...

First heard of the SAS I was in grade 7 or 8 and read the book " The Phantom Major" a book published in 1958, school library had a copy. I really enjoyed reading it. I watched the tv show on prime and it was entertaining, but I think they gave the characters a Hollywood redo. The history of the...

They will spend the increase in a 2 or 3 fold on operational and planning Part 1 will be a bilingual study on how much they should invest in the CAF to be released after the next election Part 2 will be another study on how much the previous Government spent on the CAF Part 3 will be the final...

I have a business plan. Once the shooting is over in the Ukraine, I want the scrap brass clean up contract. It would lower the world market scrap brass price but there is a lot of spent arty shells to clean up It would fund my retirement nicely

$1.00 a year plus the home company keeping the salary and benefits flowing. Ottawa picked up the living and day to day expenses of the executives they borrowed which could run higher than the salary and benefits. Do not think there is the will to do that in this day and age.

this is beyond stupid. if you think the picture might harm your career, do not take the picture.

You cannot compare the way our parents, grand parents and great grand parents lived and did and compare it to the standard of today. My great Grand father on one side of the family, went off to the Great War, after what ever they caller Ontario Hydro back then released him for service. He came...

interesting find not sure if it has been posted before, if so , my mistake if i missed it here defence news has a story running about Canada's resupply of items donated to Ukraine. M4 Carl G, replacements for the APCs donated. Ammo etc. cannot post link as it is written by a reporter not...

never tried out, sounds like fun but I was never up to the task. Not every kid playing sports is the next #99, or the next #23. Not everyone can be the elite special forces operator. It takes some skills and some mental toughness to make it. I would expect a high failure rate and have...

Not a fan of his or the party Just saying the whole thing was a waste of time They could of protested and changed things had their followers just voted the convoy line across Canada

If the US Of A , Germany, and every other large military power in NATO is having resupply issues for everything from 155 rounds, rockets, small arms bullets etc. Germany is waiting for cotton liners from China to load for artillery shells, other countries will not release export permits for...

This whole thing was a waste of Canadian resources. Fuel to idle for days, fuel for the drive across Canada. Waste of police resources across the country. Traffic control duties, crowd control and the force to push them out. Waste of tax payers money to pay for extra policing, Rations &...

crazy day in Germany, wonder how long this will take to close and move off the front pages