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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    I wonder why the number of 66 . Could that be the 66 former Recce LAV's that are no more?
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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    So AW has set up a certified AW 101 production line at IMP in Stanfield Halifax airport. Building three new CH-149's and rebuilding 13 of the present fleet. Would the AW 101 be a contender for a Cyclone replacement with that line producing Helicopters here in Canada? Hot production line and...
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    CMMA - replacing the CP140 Aurora

    Microfleets are the answer for official Ottawa however as its just enough to be SEEN doing something but not enough to DO anything with said Microfleet. Pensionable years all around and the Wife's in Ottawa are comfortable for another posting cycle. That is the way it has worked since about...
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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    I get the distinct impression that about 5 HRM councilors only got elected to deliver bike lanes in an eighteenth Century City.
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    How is Jetty A's reconstruction going?
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    So what you are saying is that Quebec based things are special? Madame Joly looked like She won something to day at CAE.
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    I was under the Impression that the Finnish Yard is building the Main Ice Breaking Hull and the top workings will be built in Quebec. So a cold Ship will be towed across the Atlantic sometimes in the future.
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Did I mention there was always Beer in conjunction with my Uncles stories.
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    A now deceased Uncle participated in the repatriation of a St Laurent Class ( HMCS name escapes me) from Davie Shipbuilding in the early 70'S when the Union Brothers do what they do. Had to sneak the Ship into the St Lawrence well after business hours and sail it back to Halifax.
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    Replacing the Subs

    The Akerley Campus has a 100 bed building just in the back and the waterfront campus has a two hundred bed building overlooking the harbour.
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    Replacing the Subs

    I believe Irving recently stated that their attrition rate is about 6.8 %.Part of the late start for NSCC collaboration has been the lack of accommodation on campus and low vacancy rates and high rents in Metro Halifax . The Province just opened two Dartmouth on site "barracks" with 300 beds ...
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    Replacing the Subs

    Case in point. https://shipsforcanada.ca/our-stories/irving-shipbuilding-and-nscc-launch-new-program-to-invest-in-canadas-marine-industry
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    RPAS (was JUSTAS): the project to buy armed Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAVs

    Is there enough qualified folks to help things along?
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    RPAS (was JUSTAS): the project to buy armed Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAVs

    Do you see an urgency in the halls of DND now as in a fill yer boots like a Pirate because things may dry up soon?
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    Canada's tanks

    Probably because the present PM soon won't be.
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    I believe MV ASTERIX was quite a timely asset to be in the Red Sea.
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    But will ignorant desperate Ottawa fundamentally change our overseas commitments? Its gray with a gun so they WILL send it .Canada will be an AOR, A330 Tanker , P-8 contributor if Ottawa listens to the Professionals. Until the mid 30's.
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    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    I can see CSOR and JTF 2 using as a tactical objective as well. Training of course.
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    Active Shooter In NS. April 19 2020

    MANY folks out East are amazed She is alive. But more folks have lost Faith in the RCMP ,as in ,will they come to your aid? Wortman was visited 16 times by the RCMP before he went off. I have a cousin in the RCMP and I have not visited him 16 times I can tell you. Too many unanswered questions...
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    2026 US-Denmark Tensions/End of NATO

    My Brother the Doctor agrees and just like he does when he is in the presence our 88 year old Father, my brother watches Trumps motor function very closely. He surmise's that if Mother nature is going to take him it will be while Trump tries to climb the stairs of AF one. It is probably the only...
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