Halifax Tar
Army.ca Fixture
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- Points
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The Americans want something that works and does the job, absolutely. But the Americans also prefer money to flow to American companies - and it’s an American company that current has a product that works well & does the job well.
(Slight distraction but relevant…wasnt it a Canadian squadron that’s won some trophy the last few years in a row on some ASW exercise?)
Usually peer pressure is a shitty excuse to buy military kit. But in this case, I don’t know that it is…
Regardless of what wizardly we park into an Aurora, the airframes themselves are just old. We could pack them full of the most high tech kit on the planet, it doesn’t change the fact that the aircraft themselves are decades old.
We are getting the P8 as things currently stand, I believe. Minister Arcand even made some reference to it a few weeks back, with media outlets buzzing about 8-12 aircraft to be procured.
Boeing’s P-8A Poseidon to replace Royal Canadian Air Force fleet of CP-140 Aurora aircraft
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*I would love it if Canada had a solution so that funds could be spent in Canada. Most of us would, absolutely.
But Bombardier hasn’t taken the initiative to design, test, or market an ASW or CMMA aircraft to the point it could be marketed as a state of the art platform at a more reasonable cost…which is a shame since Bombardier just won ‘Top Business Jet’ manufacturer worldwide
The GlobalEye was a bizjet based aircraft that could have filled the role, but without much global interest currently in that niche, it hasn’t gone anywhere minus the few aircraft that were/are in service.
One of these was on station while we were working to recover what we could of Stalker and her crew and passengers.
Truly an impressive plane. I was blow away how low it would fly.