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Take note of the press release. Its says "issue an invitation to tender for 15 new helicopters" no where does it say Chinooks. Also look at the Herc replacement "announce a competition worth $4.6 billion to replace Canada's aging fleet of Hercules aircraft" doesn't mention J model Hercs. Looks...

It's been a few years, but the last I can remember is that are Hornets are mostly carrier capable. The only change is a small mod on the nose oleo (landing gear) to disable the catapult arm/adapter. Hook that back up and they are good to go.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/64088.html Just found this, they went in by helicopter behind the Taliban and flushed them out into the open before calling in an airstrike.

Bison Do you have a ref for your statement, is Shearwater now a posting pref for FEs? I find it hard to believe the trade is taking on a new task, we have a hard enough time filling the current positions nevermind new ones. FEs are leaving faster than we can get new ones in. With the addition of...

If you are AVS and coming out to comox there are 3 places to be employed 19 AMS, 407 MP Sqn, and 442 t&R (little t, big on the R). 19 AMS is Monday to Friday job while the other 2 are manned 7 days a week. Both 407 and 442 work a 7-3, 7-4 work shift (7 days on,3 off, 7 on, 4 off). Chances are...

The FE trade is in the same boat, we are also looking at taking applicants straight off the street, running them through Borden for both AVN and AVS training. From there we run them through the FE phase of training. This is still in suggestion/planning stages, but as like any of the other...

Zoomie It is actually the 5 inner cells on the outer tank that are self sealing. The Buff would work great over there, with it's superb austere field capabilities. The airframe is very forgiving, it is the engines and avionics that cause us the most grief. Those can be upgraded relatively...

Agreed that the C6 is for defense only. It just sucks that you can only defend one side of the A/C.  Placing another C6 in the window on the left side wouldn't be all that difficult, however the HF antenna would have to move and stops placed on the mount so as not to hit the sponson. As for...

One item I found interesting in the news article is that "no new weapons will be added". One would think that you would want another C6 on the left side of the A/C. At sea it makes sense only having one gun on one side ( you can decide what side of the A/C you want to present to the threat)...