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Well, I don't know if it's really a new offshoot, since IIRC the MMA program was originally supposed to include the ASW, ASuW, and ISR roles in one variant from the get go. I really like the direct reference to mini-UAVs. I wonder how mini they're talking about? Cruise missile? Firebee sized...

Okay, I'll bite... I'm not advocating anything here, just throwing a few more irons on the fire for the sake of discussion; Let's say we go ahead, and maybe get some new FWSAR airframes (I know, I know, I'm not holding my breath either). One may notice that both the major contenders offer...

49 knots (91km)????? Any Sea King drivers care to comment? I may be a no0b, but I think I'm going to call BS on this one...

I grew up in Churchill MB, and got to see Natural Resource officers chuck all sorts of exotic ammunition downrange at polar bears. Cherry bombs and rubber slugs were the tools of choice most of the time. I've never seen one hit a person, but a frozen 12-gauge rubber slug makes a hell of an...

Actually, I was expecting something like, oh, a moving map display, or tactical HSI, or a systems management screen, or tape gauges, or a synthetic vision terrain map, or an etc. Basically anything other than repeating the same information (in steam-gauge-ese) that's already being given in a...

Man, I LOVE the Russians. They install a big, expensive, colour MFD up front, and they use it to display digital dynamic images of the old dials that used to be there.  ;D I'm not saying it's a bad idea, either, just that something about it strikes me as particularly [i]Russian[i]. And that...

I think the first mistake was splitting the SAR and MH buys, as now we're supporting two small fleets of two of the most expensive choppers in the world. It doesn't seem to me like there's a HUGE difference in capability between the Cyclone and Merlin, so I really don't see any advantage to...

"trucks"? Am I missing some terminology here?

Too true. Especially since attrition replacement is going to be pretty much impossible. It looks to me like the odds of another sucker customer coming along are fairly slim, so when our production run is finished, that'll probably be all she wrote.

Anybody else hear that Sikorsky is moving all of their civilian chopper work to Poland? Given that Canada is the only military customer (well, only militarized customer), it seems plausible to me that Sikorsky might want to move the whole S-92 line to Poland in the near future.

It seems to me that the Marine Corps approach prefers to see the MRAP given to units that are NOT on the pointy end of things. It's natural to want to give the armour to guys doing the shooting, but it's CSS guys, and road convoys who are getting hit with most of the IEDs. They do indeed want...

Isn't the CFE treaty kind of superfluous now anyways? I highly doubt Russia pulled out of it because they plan on imminently (or even in the foreseeable future) putting 13,300 tanks or 5,150 combat aircraft and 1,500 attack helicopters into active combat units. They don't have the resources...

Did Jawas sell it to you?

I expect they'll face stiff competition from conmpanies like Stavatti Heavy Industries http://www.stavatti.com/index.html ;D

Agreed. It's interesting to note, but there are far more pressing issues at the moment.

Well, eliminating marriage between cousins may very well "reduce clan warfare and promote loyalty to larger social institutions", in this case a hopefully slightly secular democracy. But we are talking here about something that would occur over many generations. Clan marriage is not something...

I'm doing a Physics degree, with a dual-major in Applied Math. I also study biology and organic chemistry, because in the event that I don't get a pilot slot in the CF, I plan to go into medicine. gladly (most of my info comes from hard-copy, so I apologise for the wiki links)...

Marriage between cousins cannot 'cause' genetic disorders, per se. Most genetic disorders are recessive, so both parents have to have the gene for there to be a possibility of the children having the defect. And it is much more likely that both parents carry the gene for a recessive disorder if...

Journeyman: DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH. I have the highest respect for the airmen of the US armed services (with only a very few exceptions among the many I have met), who as a group are the most operationally experienced in the world. And every member of the RAF I have ever met could be held...

I should probably clarify that the point I was trying to make in my aside (which, in hindsight, should probably have been expressed elsewhere, but it was topical at the moment), is that while some cowards may use IEDs, using them does not define one as a coward. I was not trying to speak for...