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I wouldn't consider the Chinook model acquisition. First, there was little in the way of operational analysis or detailed requirement to purchase a heavy lift helicopter. Its a Hillier driven purchase, and it shows.  There were other options available that might have suited our needs better...

Tough to say. There has been some gold plating going on, but its hard to tell who is at fault or if they had a serious effect on the program. However the problem with the program probably can be largely laid at its outset. To meet the GoC's requirements Sikorsky offered a modification of the...

Canada has 70% of the GDP of these countries, relies to a greater degree on exports for its GDP growth and has a much larger coastline. As  Oldgateboatdriver stated, we also don't have nearly the same level of capabilities to support like carriers.

Given that the F-15E is likely more expensive to purchase and significantly more expensive to operate than the F-35, it makes little sense to go with it. Really the biggest advantage that the F-15E has over the F-35 is its range and payload capacity with range. Yet that means less these days...

Maybe it should be coin operated: insert coins before each flight?

Absolutely... however you're referring to F-35 Block 3F. The version the OP was asking about is Block 2B (or to be precise 3I), that will have some sensor fusion capabilities, just not all of the development systems included. Some sensor fusion will have to be implemented with 2b/3i as it will...

Tough to say... the particulars of the HLMR (to coin an acronym) have never been released. The big difference between Block 2B and 3F is the level of sensor fusion and integration of a full suite weapons (most of which Canada would not ever purchase). It still has sensor fusion; it probably akin...

The reality with the US is that you have probably the most transparent process in the world when it comes to procurement. You have a detailed annual report card in the SAR, as well as teams of experts working to identify program problems and the like, both inside the DoD and outside (like the...

I'm sorry, but significant parts of your posts are based on highly inflated claims. I get the sense you've been reading Carlo Kopp's work, which has earned a high degree of contempt from professional defence analysts and military officials. On a practical level... What conditions does the...

Yes, 350 F-16s may get upgrades to get them to 2030... but that's not the aircraft the RCAF will likely ever operate with. By 2025, there will be approximately 800 to 900 or so F-35As and 180 F-22s in USAF service. The F-35s will go to frontline squadrons (such as the Marines in Iwakuni)...and...

First off, there really isn't a "cheaper missile carrier." Super Hornet might be, depending on how they structure a potential Brazilian order and the order package's features. However to make it cheaper you would likely go with an older avionics package that would not have the ability to do what...

Question for you DSubmrnr How is lifecycle calculated for submarines? Is there an underwater equivalent for cycles or time at depth operated at? Or is it just a milestone that indicates a larger shifts in cost ect. Really my question is whether the 2030 timeframe is really a hard limit... or is...

What bothers me about these two is that neither has any training in military affairs, strategic studies, defence procurement ect. Byers' PhD work is in international law. Yet they seem to have a new report every week on widely disparate topics and then are portrayed as "experts" on the topic in...

Hi there. I'm not as familiar with shipbuilding as other areas of defence procurement, but what would you suggest are key factors behind cost overruns/delays and below specification performance in ship building, and how do we avoid them? In aerospace I'd suggest complexity and immature...

2B software allows for JDAM AMRAAM and I think SDB. It will allow the USMC to undertake its IOC in 2015.

I think the window for that opportunity has started to pass. In the 1990s and early 2000 you had a lot of early entrants to the UAV game... probably best illustrated by General Atomics. Consolidation has started to occur and you're seeing development work once again being done by the primes in...

Australia and Canada are in different situations. When we undertook our life extension programs in the last ten years, we made them open-ended. So we can extend our CF-18 life for more years if necessary... but the RCAF believes that it won't be required as the fleet can fly until 2022 or so...

I stand corrected (maybe). However, as the 2011 testimony makes clear, saying the MoD will only purchase 48 is fairly disingenuous since they are planning to purchase more aircraft but have not identified what that force mix might be.

Its unlikely, because that would entail a significant change to the RAF's Force structure. First, 617 is a RAF, not a Fleet Air Arm Squadron, but the 48 B models were intended to be carrier operations, not a replacement for land based harrier squadron. Its possible that they could go to a joint...

Nothing is clear right now.... partly because the MoD likes the flexibility of the JSF partnership program offers. This was the testimony of the Permanent Undersecretary in 2011 regarding the purchase of F-35s for the RAF: Q47 Chair: What is your planning assumption on the American fighter...