Soldiers going home after 'highlight' of careers

[Edward Campbell]

And Louis St Laruent, it was the PCs who killed the Arrow.

And the PCs killed the Arrow at the behest of the Chief of the Naval Staff, the Chief of the General Staff and the Chief of the Air Staff, all of whom agreed that a HUGELY expensive, single role aircraft (interceptor) would consume so much money that the (recently re-equipped) Navy, the (waiting to be equipped) Army and Air Force would stagnate and, quickly, become useless.

The Arrow was a nice airplane, even a very good airplane, but it was fundamentally wrong for Canada because it was unaffordable.

 

[tango22a]

Bobcat was a Canadian designed and built APC.

IIRC there is one on outdoor display at CFB Borden in what used to be the RCAC Museum.


tango22a

 

[jollyjacktar]

jollyjactar. What was a Bobcat, and where can you see one today?

And further to t22a, it was I am told cutting edge and ahead of it's time, like the Arrow. 

E.R., perhaps the Arrow was but of course it is all speculation now 50 years on what the ramafications might have been if the project had continued.  I suppose it all depends upon if you are an Arrowhead or not.

 

[Edward Campbell]

And the Bobcat, like the Arrow was unaffordable.

The Bobcat, like the Arrow was, almost certainly, a perfectly good vehicle but it could not be produced and sold, globally, at a reasonable cost - not in the face of stiff competition from American and European products.

It was foolish, in the '50s and '60s, as it is now, to aim to "Buy Canadian" at any cost.

When, as with e.g. the AN/GRC-103 radios in the '60s and the LAVs in the '90s and beyond, we are able to build a good piece of kit and export it widely we will succeed, but we must do both or do without.

Sorry, folks, waaaay off topic.