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Fly? Road move!

I recall the planning for a range day in NDHQ in the early 2000s with a senior officer being very excited to fire the new rifle. I tried to reassure him that the change from an iron sight to the optical sight wasn't significant at 100m. That's when I learned that to him the new rifle was the...

The FN has a manual gas regulator, with settings from 1 to 10. Properly adjusted, the kick was greater than a C7, but not excessive. Improperly adjusted , well, the kick was significant.

Canada has a national crisis: we lack a national football song. https://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/world-cup/canada-is-becoming-a-football-nation-now-it-needs-a-fight-song/article_cb047159-486f-4399-9b03-313686f0f5b0.html

Boeing reports that an unplanned IT outage is to blame, but claims to have ruled out a cyberattack. https://theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatches/boeing-operations-disrupted-coast-to-coast-by-it-outage/

Rafale M are based at Landivisiau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landivisiau#Landivisiau_Naval_Air_Base

Because Brittany is a sweet posting?

Guilty plea plus thin on details makes me wonder if he's going to testify against the others.

No, the US is having bilateral meetings with Mexico to try to undermine the tripartite treaty. Divide and conquer, so to speak.

No, the US is having bilateral meetings with Mexico to try to undermine the tripartite treaty. Divide and conquer, so to speak.

Boy, I wonder which loser president of the US negotiated that deal, if the US thinks it's so terrible.

Set up a line to assemble CAN and UKR airframes. Share training as UKR support. Give the RCAF the bifurcated fleet they don't want. If we land somewhere around 60/60 we're ahead of 88 (though it will require significant investment in the RCAF to grow pilot and maintenance crew training capacity).

Trade advancement through skill and knowledge aka TASK. Failed for multiple reasons when proposed. The two principal reasons were: * Zero sum game. At the time, with no new money, even with pay protection there would be winners and losers, and CAF leadership is allergic to giving bad news...

You got your wish :)

Germany lost to Germany?

Lawyers adjacent: DNA lab didn't do tests or tested until they got the result they wanted. For nearly thirty years. It's unknown how many convictions occurred or how many cases were not pursued as a result of this misconduct...

The last CPC government attempted minor reform (no pun intended) by raising the qualifying age to 67. Raising eligibility age progressively and decreasing indexing of the cutoff levels over time are probably the most palatable options available; unfortunately, those options also permit future...

In Montreal, did my GMT in fall 1989 with the FN; in spring of 1990 did an abbreviated conversion to the C7.

Was on the Rocks discusses the CANUS military industrial base, and the ongoing friction under POTUS 47. https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-defense-industrial-alliance-washington-is-throwing-away/

Apparently there were Canadian celebrities at the game today.