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Thankfully, he doesn't have the same ability to interfere on this, as he did on the aircraft carrier and next gen destroyer.

You're somebody who has never served. Let alone in the RCAF and you said the air force comes across as most whiny. And you expect people not to take offence at a comment based entirely on ignorance? You have the exact same blinders as most civvies despite your time here. And hell half of the...

This kind of shit pisses me off. Let's just ignore all the new capabilities and domains the RCAF has had to get into since then and just count fiighters.

When you were in, aircraft were controlled by gears and pulleys and communications was two cans connected by string. J/k I don't think people actually understand how much more complex aircraft are today. But to give you an understanding. Space Shuttle had 400 000 lines of code. F-35 has 24.7...

This is what I mean. People only think about the unit or depot level. There's an OA, TA/WSM, LCMM for each fleet. But even at the wing level there's a SET for each fleet. There's at least a few people in Force Development and Flight Testing for each fleet as well. And then even a lot of...

Yeah. Cause they have f'd up badly before.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes

It's not just spares for the airplane. You need an entire tech and supply chain for all your ancillaries like targeting pods, without which must 4th gen have much less utility these days. There's also the entire technical and operational overheard. WSMs, OAs, etc aren't free.

Guess you're just going to ignore the massive overhead of a second fleet.

Why? Like I get the bomb truck appeal. But what's the point of another fighter fleet?

I have special contempt for Fuhr. Guy went from being one of us to a shill for Boeing because he thought the SH would be an easy transition. Swore up and down we needed two engines in Arctic. After the SH plan blew up, he's now trying to sell the Gripen while memory holing all his past talk...

I'm on a course with some C-17 drivers. They have a fantastic story of how a TASO put a 5.56mm hole through the ramp of a C-17 in Africa with an ND while clearing his weapon. Thankfully it was a clean hole and didn't hit any structural or other critical element. They speed taped a road sign...

6 is the minimum. This allows for effectively 2 Lines of Task at most. One of which is NORAD. The other will be the odd NATO commitment. Between training and maintenance, that is maxing out. 8 would have been better. But 6 to start is fine.

Agreed. It's been eye opening for me to see the cultural differences at Carling. That said, the PAD governs us all. And more should be common than not, for procurement. Haven't had that pleasure....

PM's will only outrank PDs (both functionally and on PS pay grade) at Definition. Either way though, PM is not your CoC. When I don't like what my PMO is doing I threaten (and have) sent notes up the chain. This sounds like an Army thing. Honestly. Can't say I've seen PMOs tell the Air...

Do you blame them? Look at Civic and Corolla sales in Canada. People keep buying pickups and SUVs. And desire models like the Civic and Corolla getting bigger, they can't sell as many as before. It is indeed supply and demand. Consumers have only started worrying about fuel costs with the...

This. I feel like people really forget how much maintenance cars took before the 2000s. Go far enough back and you might need an oil change to get across the country. That's how low maintenance intervals were. Rosy retrospection is high here. And rust. Holy hell. Getting a vehicle to...

Literally any modern car will last 12 years if you just do recommended maintenance on time, don't cheap out on parts and put the recommended fuel in it. Especially if you drive less than 20 000 km/yr. It's really not that hard. People who say their vehicles don't last 12 years are telling on...

Nobody said otherwise. Though I question how sincere this sentiment is when driving is so heavily subsidized in North America. And given how much every other form of transport is both demonized less subsidized. In any event, EVs and hybrids are flying off the lot now that owning a full size...

Define "peaked". My 2003 Lexus IS was starting to rust when I sold it in 2012. With 210k on it. My 2013 Jetta Hybrid didn't have a spec of rust and only started giving me trouble at 240k. Sold it after 12 years. Cars have gotten more reliable and lower maintenance over time. Stats bear...

You just need strong PDs to counter this. After all they represent the sponsor. Can't say I have has PMs think they know more than the PD. I have seen pushback on what the PM thinks is feasible or contractable. And I think that's fair.