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No idea where to put this. But so happy to see this. One of my personal pet peeves has always been how we screw over NCMs. They don't get civvy certs. But pilots, doctors, all of us officers with graduate degrees? Competition with civvy sector justifies our pay. I've advocated wherever I...

This is most definitely not happening. We'll never have enough skin in the game to justify this kind of workshare. We may be able to get some kind of subcontract work, like we do on the F-35. But that's it. And that only happens when we actually pony up real development money and commit...

You don't get more flight hours just because...... The number of hours flown are budgeted for the fleet per year. If you are flying racetracks over Sudbury, that means you might be practicing less BFM over Cold Lake. I don't think you realize that flight hours are not just gas money. The...

Not many. This is just not a thing. Air forces don't just randomly burn thousands of pounds of gas per hour, tens of thousands of dollars worth of airframe life and use crew day just to randomly patrol the middle of the country. All of this is threat driven and intelligence cued. Satellites...

You think places where they have ranges that let them manoeuvre aggressively, train with ordinance and don't have to worry about traffic gets boring enough they would rather fly straight and level for hours over the Prairies?

We don't. But somehow, defence seems to be a unique space where everybody thinks their opinion should carry the same weight. That and high speed rail recently, I guess. And not even all defence. Just fighters. We have space projects that will spend double digit billions. You will not see...

How much of this is people thinking air force = equal fighters, army = tanks, navy = large fighting boats? And how much of the Canadian public perception of what the military does is based on American cultural and media influences? Expecting the CAF to educate past that with granularity is...

I struggle to see how this gives the impression that we're just flying CAPs all the time and they are all fighters: People who live on the coast are well aware of Auroras and Sea Kings/Cyclones regularly doing Fish Pats and SAR. Sovpats are not always fighters. Heck, I am not even sure the...

Apparently people think our 3 Wg and 4 Wg are simply burning YFR flying CAP in the middle of the country.....

We literally use Griffons for this today. When we have major events like G7, Rotary Wing Intercept is on patrol or QRF for Cessnas and drones. You don't use fast movers for that. An armed trainer is actually overkill for even this. Beyond that, a Reaper with Hellfires or Akerons can destroy...

I'm genuinely curious. 1) What sovereignty flights do you think we do "over Canada"? 2) Why do you think these are or should be done exclusively with fighters? 3) Why you think a trainer with limited range and no AAR capability is suited for this? And where we getting the people and money...

Accurate. Honestly, I kinda get now what the Sea King folks must have felt like watching Chretien complain about the EH-101 and calling it a Cadillac. Here we are 3.5 decades later and we're talking about retiring the Cyclone 15 years early because it's been nothing but trouble and the OEM has...

The increased FLIT will improve pilot generation giving the air force a growth pathway. Maybe by 2040 we'll actually have enough fighter pilots to actually operate 100+ fighters. Using FLIT as fighters has some, but limited utility. Really, they can only be used as training support at home...

And in 20 yrs the price tag will be even higher. If we listened to folks who only see price tags, the Confederation Bridge or the railways that built this country would never have been constructed.

My preferred solution: 1) Cut back F-35. 60-70. Painful. But guess we gotta give the public something. 2) Increase the number of FLIT. 3) Commit early to GCAP. At least 30 frames. 4) Launch a CCA program. Dual fleet right now is only half the problem with the Gripen. We plow $10...

To some extent. When you only buy new capability every 3-4 decades, you tend to lose the ability to learn. But we aren't just doing the fighters. We're replacing the Auroras. The strat airlift fleet is getting an 800% increase in offload capability for AAR (no that's not a typo). We're 10x...

Aside from OPSEC considerations what you're asking is really difficult to say. You can look at how many personnel are posted in Cold Lake (about 2000) and Bagotville (1400). But that doesn't tell you how those Wings scale with number of aircraft. There's the overlap with 2 Wing in Bag. And...

You really seem to be missing the point. The Space Shuttle worked just fine. But it took that much code to run it. And all that code has to be maintained. It also generates output. That output drives work. So if a given system has 100X the code for example, it's not unreasonable to expect a...

Same thing. Go to 429 . On any given day, 2 of 5 C-17s will be flyable. And probably 50/50 on whether both of those are FMC. You seem to be the expert. Please lay out what types you think they were meant to replace. Because the US mandates a minimum combat fleet size. They are at 1100...

Most of our day to day in the RCAF is not FMC. That's most air forces actually. This is why that stat sounds sensational to anybody in blue. What really matters is how many times they are cancelling missions on the board because the aircraft is u/s in a manner which violates the MEL (Minimum...