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And unlike the Super Hornet, the Gripen actually still passed muster and was not eliminated from the competition. It wasn't just coming in second place, it was holding enough of a standard to remain as a 'viable' alternative. I could see the logic behind this being a "Canadian" specific issue...

This is patently false, none of these nations are looking for GCAP to be able to operate off an aircraft carrier. GCAP is a land based aircraft and there are not attempts to try and turn it into a carrier based aircraft. The UK, Italy and Japan all operate carriers that are entirely unsuitable...

I'd be curious to see these articles, because there has been absolutely nothing on my radar that has supported the French or British/Germans talking about their 4th gen aircraft with Canada. This fundamentally comes back to Canadian jobs, which neither of the aforementioned platforms will be...

The whole article is worrying, but specific parts of it have the potential to set a very bad precedent for Canadian procurement. Picking a winner to a competition where not even the winner was made aware of its technical and operational needs until weeks after the award is very difficult to...

Nobody else is on the table regardless, it’s clear the Gripen is the only other option within consideration at the moment.

The rabid nationalist types also need to realize that fundamentally, no fighter on Earth is safe from US interference if they decide that Canada is going to be punished for some dubious reason. The US can directly interfere with the F-35 to cut off updates, software support, spare parts and more...

I posted back in February talking about the ferry debacle, the schedule is pretty laughable given how the Levis shipyard seems to be a derelict ghost town in comparison to their NSS counterparts.

Very interesting news breaking out of La Presse on the same day as GCAP observer status was signed. This is machine translated by Google, so take it with a grain of salt but this does seem to undermine the Bombardier/Saab fighter relationship...

Uh, how is 1/3 of all GlobalEye’s being manufactured in Canada different than the status quo before we entered the program? Bombardier provided the base aircraft, are we getting nothing more out of this partnership?

I'm not talking about opinions, I'm referencing what we're aware actually happened officially or unofficially regarding the "Tribal" naming scheme for the River class. We have folks on this forum who were directly involved with the process and they have specifically listed some of the reasons...

What I understood was that Canada would be getting very early production boats to actually meet our timeline, which would likely mean effectively the first boats or ones very soon after. The company who magically shifted the primary issues with their bid forward at the last minute to pull out a...

Which Canada now has the honours of receiving a number of early production boats which we need to replace our own aging submarines, with all of their quibbles and issues intact. The Germans and Norwegians get to sit back while we beta test the design, a design which isn't even operational as of...

When one bidder is specifically behind on one element for the majority of their bid and manages to correct it AND beat their competitor in the last minute, I think a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted. Doubly so when they are already dealing with production bottlenecks and a number of other...

Nominal crewing is the same according to both parties, KSS-III being larger has additional bunk space set aside specifically for crew training and other purposes though.

This is standard procurement stuff, just like how we kept Saab on the backburner even after they lost to Lockheed Martin. From what we have seen in the public sphere, both bids were very comparable in what they offered. I don't think TKMS had an advantage over the Koreans, atleast for what was...

Incapable? Surely not, Canada is a first world nation that can realistically do many things. Just because we can do something though, doesn't mean we should do it at the end of the day. I can also point to nations like India, Spain and Korea who have all had substantial growing pains and...

I very much question the plausibility in doing anything besides rather small scale or minor assembly work, as submarine construction is basically the most complex, expensive and difficult industrial efforts that a nation can embark upon. This is doubly so regarding cutting edge designs like the...

K9 Thunder is very unlikely to happen given GDLS-Canada's LAV 10x10 based AGM bid, which is almost certainly going to sweep the competition given the initial requirements were literally made for that platform. If the Hanwha submarine bid had been successful and K9 production had been set up in...

I hope the Germans are held to account on their promises to dump money into the port of Churchill boondoggle and not allowed to weasel out of it now that they’ve seemingly won.

This government seems to be onboard with an increasing number of very questionable pie in the sky domestic industrial investments, so I wouldn’t be surprised that they bit onto a promise such as that in the end.