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I can see that. I’m just worried the end result will be the death of Canadian MH.

How about a completely different idea? Since the S-92 is no longer supported, in favour of the S-92A, and the 148 is a different beast altogether (fly by wire…), why not “upgrade” the airframe to the S-92A. “Move” the mission system and avionics over to the new airframe, and when possible even...

That was, and is, a Cyclone capability. It’s called MPAS (mission preparation and analysis service) and is installed in the ADR. There was an interface to CCS-330 but that has been removed. It’s not just for RMP. It was in addition to Link-11. The Sea King had a much more modest RMP upload and...

Speaking of independant ops on the Cyclone thread... I've been trying to run to ground what happened to move from carrier controlled ops to "independant" ops in the Sea King around 1970... it's not entirely clear. Three things converged: the loss of Bonnie, and her dedicated control...

So, I was answering questions about deck ops on Facebook, and somebody called me an "Attention-W" (I had to look it up) and told me to get a life... but here goes. Independantly, as discussed in the CONOPs, is the ability of the aircraft to make most tactical decisions itself, instead of...

Psssst; I know. Iwas using the OPs terminology.

Except the MH CONOPs is not just an MH operating from an FFGH/DDGH. It’s an MH operating independently from an FFGH/DDGH. So: the Cyclone, on paper, yes, in reality, ? a Merlin, yes a 60R, at a stretch, maybe a Lynx or any other small helicopter, no Therefore, before we can talk about those...

Not to be pedantic, but if we’re throwing away the MH CONOPs because we feel it can’t be met by our current helicopter or any logical replacement, shouldn’t we decide on what we want to do and have a new CONOPs before thinking about which helicopter?

The 148 has no TCDL at all. Last I heard (2 1/2 years ago) they were just developing a requirement. Hard to get people who think "ASW is just underwater ISR" to understand actual ISR requirements. Plus, historically, it wasn't part of the Navy's thought process. Until it was... The Sea King...

Yep, but there are two limitations: can't use high gain directional antennas can't do two way (although there was some work going on, haven't kept up) The Sea King was capable of C-Band and non-directional Ku. During trials I actually had a laptop out on the outer ramp at Shearwater and was...

Link-22 is not "better" than Link-16. It was designed when Link-16 was really expensive (because it contained it's own, sophisticated radio) as a "poor man's Link-16." The reason is it could use existing UHF and HF radios. It actually reuses a bunch of the Link-16 J-Series messages as NJ-Series...

There are three big parts to any Link system: the bearer nad a way for multiple platforms to use it (ie for Link-16 a netted RF system in the 1 GHz range) the formatted messages (ie for Link-16 J-Series) the way to use it to create a common operating picture (ie correlation, reporting...

I would argue the platform level sensor fusion is better in the Cyclone then the 60R, although more dependant on having a battle manager onboard. It’s the force level picture compilation which is in doubt, and never really got there with Link-11 either. But regardless, picking any old platform...

Yes; sorry, I use them interchangeably

Brihard, Yes with two caveats. If you want to become “an extension of the ships sensors” there are other options, such as TCDL. If you want to be an independent force unit, Link-16 is the only real choice. Hence why the Romeo added Link-16 to TCDL. It’s not just ASW, it’s all warfare areas. I...

The DMS for the Aurora and MDMS for Cyclone are not the same. The share the same history, but the way Canada writes requirement ensured they wouldn’t be. Even though if they had met the intent of the requirements, not how they were technically written, they would be the same… The hard part of...

That was largely true with the 60B but not as much with the R. As a matter of fact, part of the reason the R has Link-16 in addition to TCDL. It also has “AI” to help the left seat make tactical decisions. TCDL does still allow a properly fitted ship to help the aircraft. As has discussed...

The more research I do, the more I realize that, technically, our Sea Kings weren’t as good as they could have been, contrary to the stories we like to tell. Interestingly, there are many parallels to the current situation…

I helped write the GDMS-C proposal to Sikorsky for Link-16. The cost being charged to the government has nothing to do with technical complexity. The Cyclone was always intended for Link-16 or -22; the message sets exchanged with the Link-11 terminal sets are largely J-Series (Link-16) by spec...

Nope, only in your head. You haven’t changed antibodies mind, just showed the whole world who you are. And what kind of narcissistic asshole gets a kick of humiliating some random person on the internet?