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To me, that cuts right to the heart of the issue; I think Canada is cutting corners by doing it that way. I would prefer if we had a heavier formation earmarked for Latvia, and come up with a force generation model to support that, with prepositioned equipment. The LIB would be earmarked for...

Completely understandable. It's pretty easy to figure out exactly who I am from my profile, and that may not be such a great decision on my part. However, you must realize that it is easy to characterize you as a "rando" as well? Ironically, looking in from the outside, it seems you and the...

I’m not convinced, but I’m pretty biased because I’m not a fan of defining capabilities before policy and requirements.

No, I think we should trust Elon, go into a prepaid firm contract for at least 100 Srarships configured point to point, and train our QRF to withstand reentey Gs. By may calculation a point to point Starship should be able to carry 2 Leapord 2s. One Starship per company of troops = 6 4 LAV-6’a...

OK… what defence need does that meet, and how does it support Canada’s foreign policy goals?

Y’all is a plural statement, so I’m wondering who you mean. If you think you’re going to educate all of us you may be sorely disappointed. Given that the CAF is god awful at explaining how it’s requirements flow from defence policy, the government is just as bad at explaining what and why that...

I completely agree, but that’s not what I said. it was the Navy who muddied the waters and turned the AOR replacement into JSS, which then got wrapped up in the “Big Honking Ship.” The Navy tried to make the AOR something that nobody wanted, and it just confused the issue. When it came down to...

… and I’ll beat the same drum I’ve mentioned elsewhere. How are we (as a nation) discussing the ai frame when we don’t have defence policy or CONOPs. This is exactly what allows”experts” to come out of the woodwork and say “it has to be this, because I’m an expert, and I say so.” It’s not clear...

Yeah… that was, for a time, my entire job at AGSIO, notwithstanding I was supposedly the surveillance guy. This was because we went from 8 to 5 Global Hawks and then figured out the impact after the fact. The math becomes weird when the endurance goes over one day. It was surprising that a lot...

In writing on the C-17 thread I realized the underlying problem with how Canada’s AEW is proceeding. In order to properly define a requirement like this, we should first update defense policy (Canada is in dire need of a national discussion leading to a new defence white paper) and then create...

I think we need to understand it’s not a JSS, it’s an AOR, which is what the Navy wanted all along. The JSS part was a failed attempt to get it accelerated by saying it was for HADR and the army, even though the Army didn’t want it. Lack of focus, on the part of both the Navy and the government...

This, in a more general sense. In my opinion, the primary role of a military is to be ready for full scale combat operations, so it never happens. Canada hasn’t done that, in any domain, for a long time. We seem to always say we need enablers and sustainment, but it takes forever, and we tell...

Do mean documents or stories? I’m not doing the stories bit but we may have identified someone. We may start with some oral histories. I’m doing the ”facts” from references bit. If you have something that you think isn’t in the museum archive let us know.

Yeah. I apologize if what I was saying seemed personal. It’s not. I actually use this thread to float ideas, based on research, of what happened. The reason is there is an effort to turn those thought bubbles into actual peer reviewed historical work. Turns out that the last 15 years of the...

I Don’t want to get micro at all. When I said structural problems I meant that list of people that got us here. Ship’s issues are, or at least should be, irrelevant to this discussion. I’m talking about things like: MAG and MAG Engineering Requirements was closed out without repkacement The...

Second random historical thought of the day... which also has a current application. Contrary to Adm Topshee's assertion, this isn't all on Sikorsky, and 12 Wing isn't without either historical blame. It's on everybody, and I'll list them: ADM(Mat) / PMO MHP, PWGSC, Comd RCAF (Air Command) /...

First random historical thought of the day... which has a current application, not just to MH but all Canadian procurement. When doing business to business procurement, the customer and the user are not the same. When doing business with government, that is even more so. When doing business...

Do you think that the General's are allowed anywhere near that, much less discuss it. If you even acknowledge the presence of Stargate Command by looking at them they whip out their special black pen and make you forget everything. What a sec... am I mixing up my movie underground bunkers...

Saw an E-Mail chain at Cheyenne Mountain where all the very senior types argued back and forth about something for quite a bit, and then when they made their decision just forwarded the whole chain to either the entity crew force or the entire station (can’t remember which). Always interesting...

I have just enough experience with Air BM that when my company was trying to bid on a ground segment project I told them to go hire some Air BM SMEs, because we didn’t have any (I was the closest due to my NORAD time, but I was missile not air). They didn’t, and they didn’t get to bid. Like...