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Currently Irving does not have adequate space to take on efficient River class construction given that the yard was initially expanded to build smaller vessels, before the NSS mandated larger warship designs as part of the CSC program. The new construction will give them enough room to...

No plans currently besides vague overtures towards "Small Surface Combatants", although we have no idea as to what this entails. It seems likely that the US will need some kind of interim frigate or corvette design given their fleet operational issues, although the political leadership of the...

Nothing public.

Because there isn't realistically anything that the RCN or Govt can to do Irving right now to actually speed up delivery timelines. Irving is still actively finishing up the final two CCG AOPS and actively working on the first River class, the yard has to clear out before work on the frigates...

Never going to happen, the RCN is beyond desperate to get the River class in service and will accept no delays in order to make that happen. Nobody besides Irving is going to take on production.

We did not rule the Eurofighter and Rafale out like we did with the Super Hornets, both other Euro competitors withdrew on their own accords due to perceived issues they had or capability requirements (FIVEEYES/domestic production/offsets) which they couldn't meet.

The numbers really put the headline into perspective. Saab did not enter the C/D model for review in the procurement, otherwise the percentages would be even lower.

Topshee stated in his interview with Noah (38 min mark roughly) that they are looking at the CDC having the ability to travel from St. John's, Newfoundland to Prince Rupert, BC (5,300 nmi~) and he wants another 20% margins, which brings it up to roughly 7,000 nmi range without refueling...

NORAD isn't a first strike command however, it's something to realize that Russian bombers incursions into our airspace are typically escorted by their own fighters. Currently those are last generation SU-35's typically however, Russia is actively producing its own 5th generation SU-57 fighter...

Indeed, if people want to be calling out one side in this discussion, scrutiny should be divvied up equally.

The author addresses this somewhat in their article however for fully transparency's sake, Mikael Grev is a former Gripen pilot and co-founder and CEO of Avioniq. Avioniq is a software company founded and ran by former Gripen pilots, who have been closely involved with Saab for years at this...

AOPS is fundamentally built as a non-combatant vessel and no amount of retrofitting or redesigning of the ship can effectively change that. It is an exceptionally large design with big spaces, wide open corridors and a lot of empty space for non-combatant roles. It's slow and lumbering with no...

https://skiesmag.com/news/typhoon-withdrawn-from-canadian-fighter-competition/

Not sure I'd be so quick to throw shade at Brazil. Sure we are a more advanced nation, but I think some introspection about how troubled Canadian industry can be should be in order. There should be a realistic discussion about the viability of this proposal, we should not allow it to be clouded...

The fact that aerospace is an exceedingly difficult and specialist field to get involved with? Military aerospace with products like modern fighter aircraft are another entire world away from the civilian aerospace industry, there is a reason why so few nations are able to even assemble somebody...

Dangling of domestic jobs in front of a Canadian politician is akin to doing the same with a big juicy steak and a hungry dog.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/saab-sweden-canada-fighters-f35-9.6987069 In just the span of a few days, we're already seeing flip flopping from "purchasing Gripens is not a prerequisite to setting up an assembly line for fighters in Canada with Canadian partners" to saying "it doesn’t make...

They've pledged the 10,000 jobs figure specifically regarding the Gripen and its related industry, not as a part of a larger cooperation agreement. They've pledged 3,000 jobs specifically regarding GlobalEye production as well, are they double counting these two together? There is definitely...

Great to see Saab seemingly changing their bid already, when it seems only a day or so ago this factory was predicated on the RCAF placing an order. This very much is sounding to me like a pitfall in the waiting for the Canadian Government set by Bombardier and Saab together, follow along for a...

People bring this up all the time, but I think the sheer complexity, time and money required to re-engine an aircraft is lost on many folks. Saab is seemingly plagued by long standing problems just producing enough Gripen E/F models as it stands now, and we expect them to go through all of the...