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I don't think people suggesting this have thought it through.. If America allows Iran to control the SoH, international shipping dies. Some group will claim the SoM, BAM, SoG, etc... and the rest of the world will just have to comply. Iran can't "win" unless we as a collective give-up on...

I'm wondering if this applies to "smudging" and other indigenous religious events, or if the CAF must continue to pretend that one religion isn't being held up as superior to others? "Spiritual" is religious... Particularly when you force people to participate.

Where, and at what times of the year? 6 months in the tropics is vastly differnt form the mid-lattitudes, and even more different from northern lattitudes. Was it "sheltered waters", or open ocean? Glossy brochures are great, but in the end that present the best case scenario from the...

How many are interested in putting any of their own money or time into something that may never go past the single prototype stage? I'm sure there are a few, but my understanding is that those types of businesses are quite busy just keeping-up with demand. True, but electronics and mechanical...

The war started at the end of Feb...

I'm good with A-400s, C-390s, or whatever other airlift we can get. I also know we don't have enough, so anything we can get is a bonus.

Our C17s are run ragged supporting CAF operations around the globe, they aren't free for this sort of use. If we had 3x the number of C-17, we still wouldn't have enough for all of the CAF uses for them.

The RCN is going all-in on UAS/USV, and will push boundaries as much as they can be pushed. From the outside it might appear that Ottawa is trying to hold things back, but in reality, Ottawa is trying to make the policy/process align with reality. Policy moves slowly, because policy requires...

In 2012 I was deployed on HMCS Regina, we had UAS that had 12hr endurance... This stuff isn't new, and it isn't hard to make work. Nobody at the time though UAS weren't useful... The government decided that CAF wasn't useful an cut budgets, so the CAF decided to preserve the high-cost...

At one time that was the 737, until they turned it into the Pinto.

I kind of get the idea of a "future strategic airlift" platform. We have all lived through/grown-up in a world where revolutions in design are the norm, not the exception. That seems to be ending as aircraft hit their practical limitations, and realistically, hit them 20 years ago. I think for...

Like the M-4 replacement plans, it will be a case of the new "thing" not being better enough to justify the cost of switching. If Boeing was smart they'd find a way to make C-17s again, and make sure that the order books were full. The demand for rough field capable strategic airlift isn't...

I'd be wearing my torque and gloves in an open cockpit biplane.

You need to go back to at least 550 BC, and Cyrus The Great.

Nobody... Iran has been a forever war since 1979. They haven't won yet, and they aren't likely to win anytime soon.

The USA is no closer to winning, but neither is Iran... It's a new forever war. All of the predictions of America backing down and running away have proven as false as the collapse of Iran's regime.

I'm just a weather guy with mostly "surface level" 😉 knowledge of oceanography, but I'm guessing they were in the same spot because it was the best layer to hide from other subs... As you said, eventually, when everybody is trying to be in the same layers, there will be conflicts.

A product of seven months of winter, and liquor laws that require live bands for many bars.