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Well, Vard is owned by Ficantieri so...

Hydrogen is energetically inefficient in its most "green" form. In its non-green form its a huge GHG producer. There is a reason fuel cells are called "fool cells" by electric car manufacturers. They have good uses for a varied group of applications, I'm not sure trucking is one of the...

RCN was way ahead on this year's ago when I was in Ottawa. RCAF learned quickly to have the same information available when briefing up. CA still doesn't even know how many and what vehicles they have in inventory, let alone full fleet availability and maintenance... When you have the data...

5000 LAV's, 500 Medium Cavalry vehicles, HIMARS, 100 SPGs, 100ish 120mm mortar vehicles, new C7 program advanced a year in timing, MINERVA program, 1000s of new LUV, the TAPV LCAV program and so on. The army is in on it. They are just... as armies are, slower. Their big difference is they...

The CDSEA seems like it will have compass call ambitions as well as the Singint aspects. Really interesting

I assume we're looking at a Global soj in the image. I'm just a little racist with aircraft. A lot of them look the same to me.

HFX carries 16 ESSM2. And only ESSM2 because it uses the Mk52 (?) single missile launchers. A 24 tactical length VLS would be able to carry between 24 SM family missiles and 96 ESSM2. Strike length could carry the whole naval missile family.

Are they doing the crewing model with an eye to the new trade structure? As on PRO we have no clue how the new trade structure will impact us and we already know the model. CDC is cutting so close to the bone there is a high likelihood of getting things wrong with no wiggle room because of...

Canada will have full control. That's a pretty common thing in our purchases.

If they up the VLS to 24 then it's gonna be shootyfax not minifax.

CARB? Cavalry Armoured Brigade???

The new Sea Giraffe 4A has fixed arrays and I believe its going on the new Finish Pohjanmaa class corvette. As does the Germans with their Hendsolt TRS 4D. Actually the Saab had a ship design for the CDC at CANSEC as well. They used the same mast design as for the Pohjanmaa class. The Saab...

That Seaspan model was stated to be already out of date based on Seaspans new designs (CANSEC reporting... they just wanted to have a model there to show they were working on stuff I think). Noah is reporting that CDC is upping the VLS requirement from 16. Which means likely 24 as they go in 8...

From Noah on True North Strategic Ok integrated UAS could be an interesting thing here... but the first half (30mm and such) what the actual $#*%? Need more information but I have no idea what you would do with one of those (perhaps the 30mm is for shooting down drones??)

Ah yes F-16. Thanks for the correction @Oldgateboatdriver !

It hasn't been announced. There is a specific line in the documentation that says this relationship doesn't constitute a purchase. It's essentially an agreement to give us a look under the hood. Of course who's kidding who. This will probably lead to a purchase.

Friend of mine was one of the first guys to fly the F-18 when they took his CF104 away. He stated that a good chunk of the Airforce wanted the F-15 and that a lot of NATO air forces though we were crazy to buy a "naval aircraft" as our land based fighter. Then they say the performance and all...

Yah that would be an advantage. So what you're saying is that once we get these aircraft we need to leverage the Saab IP for sensors to build a C series equivalent of the E-7.... lol. Airbus sure (50.01% actually), but the planes are built in Mirabel.

I suspect that given some of the capabilities inherent in the E7 that may not be in the Global Eye (GE) there could be an argument for the purchase of more airframes or different airframes. Example is that the E7 radar say covers more airspace, or have longer endurance. As such in order to...

I understand. I think if we continue to do things like this submarine contract, where the military narrows the selection down to two acceptable options, and then hands it over to the public service to do their calculations things will be better. Though there is some potential for problems...