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Recruiting Center: Ottawa Regular/ Reserve: Regular Officer/ NCM: Officer Trade Choice #1: Pilot (CEOTP-Pilot) Trade Choice #2: Trade Choice #3: Applied: March 11th, 2016 First Contact: March 16th, 2016 CFAT: April 12th, 2016 (Passed) Seneca Pre-Acceptance: April 26th, 2016 ACS: June 15th...

Err...BMQ or BMOQ? I see a BMQ Jan 16 one, but no BMOQ.

On the Growler, the gun's deleted to free up space for some secret squirrel stuff, and and the wingtip AIM-9 stations (1 and 11?) are replaced by EW receivers (ALQ-218?). It's theoretically less capable in close than a Rhino. Given that the last gun kill was ~25 years ago, by a Thunderbolt, on...

Would be inadvisable to integrate them into current squadrons. They're different aircraft. I think this is one of the common misunderstandings I see (particularly in the CBC comments section). The Super Hornet is not interchangeable with the legacy Hornet. They had 10% structural commonality...

Can one of the experts give me orientation on this? I don't know much about squadrons and logistics. Are the gains of the Super Hornet worth the associated headaches of having two fighter types? Is it simple expediency? Do we need an interim fighter? Are our fighter needs so pressing that we...

To my understanding, Ammo Techs do our EOD

I think Lockheed-Martin needs an F-35 sexiness upgrade (I suggest flames, or racing stripes, or those hubcaps that spin ;D). The damn plane is plenty appealing to guys whose business is fighters (and me, cause I'm a sheep), it's just not appealing to laymen (and therefore the Donald, cause he's...

Yeah, it seemed an interesting thought to me, too, which is why the blowup at Max and the RCAF bugged me. I'm not sure how much Joe Public cares about Sikhs and Scots with knives, and I'm not sure whether Joe Public's desire for safety is trumped by the rights of traditions. A worthwhile...

Ah, I was referring Freedom of the City in the sense of the parade, not the ceremonial honour of carrying weapons. Permission to parade through their streets is granted by the municipal government. It's a privilege. That's a bit unrelated, though. At issue, is, as rnkelly put it, a couple of...

The way I (and, I'd wager, the law) see it, being in Scottish traditional dress is a reasonable excuse. This is just an overreach by police. They happen. Incidents like these are what enshrine legal definitions of what is a reasonable excuse. It's how the legal system works, awkward as it might...

Screw gently-used Hornets. What we really need is to resurrect the world-beating, cancelled-by-the-Americans-cause-they-afraid CF-105 Avro Arrow. With quick dab of the stealth juice, we could have a made-in-Canada replacement for the F-18 at 1/4th the price of competitors!  8) (It don't have...

Do you have to be low to deploy sonobuoys? Does the P-8 even have sonobuoys? (I don't know jack about ASW)

Hah, thanks  :) Looks like I've got some new bedtime reading, haha.

That's not really what I was thinking of when I touched on arsenal ships. To me, what they're talking about is just a further evolution of Bomber CAS, being served targets from a BACN or direct via Link 16. That's here and now. What I meant about arsenal ships is mentioned later in the article...

AFAIK (keeping in mind that I am a wee spring chicken), a 50% RCS reduction on the Rhino wouldn't really do much, as a viability thing. The RCS of a Super Hornet commonly is quoted at 0.1m2 RCS, similar to the rest of the "Gen 4.5" crowd. A 50% reduction (to 0.05) might be enough to write "Gen...

Soooo...two of the famous downsides (stores capacity, maneuverability) of the dreaded F-35, in trade for two of the upsides (clean combat radius, and IRST). It'll have 2 engines (yay, political points) and be proven technology (ish). In trade, worse stealthing (no RAM, unstealthy airframe)...

Some questions: So, Boeing is suing Denmark because they think they know the requirements of the Danish MoD better than the Danish MoD does? That sounds odd. Are the F-15s in the Israel deal new build? I was under the impression that they were surplus USAF ones, no gain to Boeing. What is an...

From my understanding, that's the F-35's game. "Network Centric Warfare", "A Revolution in Military Affairs", call it whatever buzzwords you want. All that stuff (MIDS, MALDs, etc.) is here and now, barring lasers, which, as an offensive system, seem a good ways off, and arsenal ships, which...

Yeah, the US did just that on the first day of the Gulf War air campaign. Launched a hundred TALDs (predecessor to the MALD), and then blew up anything that spiked them. While the Russians have newer stuff than the Iraqis had 25 years ago, so does the USA. They're just not so loud about it...

I will preface this by saying, I'm not an SME, this isn't my job, and if one of the real experts would like to show up, that'd be great. With that out of the way, here's my amateur analysis: [list type=decimal] The S-500: I'll wait and see. My gut feeling is that a missile big enough to go...