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I don't buy this. Station keeping for drones is neither new nor that difficult. Matching the formation to where that pilot was, is the difficult part

If HSR goes to Kingston it will kill the demand that would sustain a regional hub. This idea is boneheaded on so many levels. 1) Forces a Southern routing where there's more opposition as it is. 2) Runs through more settled areas which means higher expropriation costs. 3) Massive detour that...

1 CAD started to do this 2 years ago too. And there's a CAF wide effort led by a two leaf to bring this back. But I do wonder sometimes if all the focus on drone and cyber warfare has robbed a bit of focus and energy on spectrum warfare. Especially in the CA. For the RCAF and RCN, spectrum...

Personally I think the spectrum needs to be treated as a separate domain instead of being lumped into cyber. I'm deeply concerned for all the modernization in the CAF that spectrum warfare isn't getting enough attention and is still treated as a fringe for some nerds and geeks.

To some extent. The concept of recce has to change in the age of drones and space based ISR. The American MDTF aims to sense deep and attack deep, often through non-Kinetic means (Cyber, EW). All the Kinetic effects start 70 km out and go further. They're not really focused on MLRS. More...

I think you might be missing the point of the MDTF here. It's a rear echelon formation that does everything from air defence, to long range strike, to SIGINT, to EW, to Space Based ISR to offensive cyber. I have questions about how much of this is complementary and/or should be in the same...

Creating permanent pressure on global oil prices is a great way to encourage the energy transition. Trump and the Ayatollah are great environmentalists!

Except that now MAGA seems to be pinning this whole thing on him. Nice way to clear the r runway for one of the Trump kids. There goes 2028 for Vance. Hilarious.

Their ex-Trump WhatsApp group must be a trip.

The Ayatollah says he doesn't approve.

So how many days after they get the $24B will they close the Strait again? Bets?

I'm not autistic enough to not comprehend the position the PM is in.

All the people who thought these were the tough guys...... Turns out they are so sensitive to public sentiment that even in a second term presidency, they'd rather suffer humiliating defeat than plow through $5 gas. Every adversary has America's number now.

Sure. But that needs to be traded off against the cost of operating another type or even just a larger C-17 fleet. And this is all a bigger headache as the army's kit gets bigger. Even the Americans are worried about that. Part of the motivation to restating C-17 production. The way I see...

Not as much as people imagine. First because we aren't doing the island hopping thing the Americans are doing. And next, because it's going to be rare to get a commander who will risk a Herc the same way they'd risk a Chinook. Might as well recognize reality and go to a platform that gets...

The Atlas can do tactical lift though. And really so can a C-17. The advantage of a Herc is actually rather small. And a big part of why the Atlas and even the C-390 are growing in popularity is the realization that we don't do as much hard tactical lift (to short unprepared airstrips) as we...

It's not just speed. The C130 is increasingly constrained on dimensions and payload weight. Given that reality, if the C130 fleet isn't replaced, there's a bunch of short haul and intra theater lift where you might just have to use C-17s. So maybe just increase the C-17 fleet to 20 frames if...

Link 16 is past its prime. But the problem is that only the Americans ever fund development of tech like this. So of course they get control. If we want things to be a NATO standard, et need the alliance to work on developing them.

This has everything to do with their domestic politics. Anthropic pulled out of deals with the Pentagon. And Anthropic competitors are Republican donors and supporters. So the Administration is being punitive and trying to hobble Anthropic after their market cap pulled ahead of OpenAI, right...

So does every American defence lobbyist. I literally see this at work because we see the questions coming in. These people aren't motivated by some alliance politics. They are upset that what they saw as easy dollars aren't going their way. And the US Government is getting worried because...