The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

[daftandbarmy]

The Ukrainians are looking forward to the Gripens...

This is how Ukraine’s F-16s hide from Russian drones​

Ukraine’s F-16s operate from night from small airstrips while under constant threat of Russian attack. Despite this, they’re surviving.


It's not for no reason Kyiv wants the Swedish Gripen. To avoid Russian bombardment that could wipe out its roughly 125 surviving fighters, the Ukrainian air force splits its flying brigades into small teams that travel by truck to airstrips and even lengths of highway all across central and western Ukraine.

This is how Ukraine's F-16s hide from Russian drones

Ukraine's F-16s operate from night from small airstrips while under constant threat of Russian attack. Despite this, they're surviving.

euromaidanpress.com

 

[HavokFour]

The Ukrainians are looking forward to the Gripens...

This is how Ukraine’s F-16s hide from Russian drones​

Ukraine’s F-16s operate from night from small airstrips while under constant threat of Russian attack. Despite this, they’re surviving.


It's not for no reason Kyiv wants the Swedish Gripen. To avoid Russian bombardment that could wipe out its roughly 125 surviving fighters, the Ukrainian air force splits its flying brigades into small teams that travel by truck to airstrips and even lengths of highway all across central and western Ukraine.

This is how Ukraine's F-16s hide from Russian drones

Ukraine's F-16s operate from night from small airstrips while under constant threat of Russian attack. Despite this, they're surviving.

euromaidanpress.com

RCAF just did an exercise in Latvia back in September honing that very skill, using highways for takeoff and landing.

Canadian military jets conduct drills in Europe amid drone incursions

The deputy commander of a detachment of Canadian fighter jets conducting exercises in Europe says the team is prepared to join any NATO response to recent drone incursions on alliance airspace if required.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[daftandbarmy]

RCAF just did an exercise in Latvia back in September honing that very skill, using highways for takeoff and landing.

Canadian military jets conduct drills in Europe amid drone incursions

The deputy commander of a detachment of Canadian fighter jets conducting exercises in Europe says the team is prepared to join any NATO response to recent drone incursions on alliance airspace if required.

www.ctvnews.ca

How did the F-18s do?

It all looks pretty sketchy!

 

[HavokFour]

How did the F-18s do?

It all looks pretty sketchy!

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Also a tactical landing with a Hercules.

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Need a deployable street sweeper to clean the road...

 

[markppcli]

How did the F-18s do?

It all looks pretty sketchy!

Just fine !


Also Norwegian F-35 Fighters Landed on a Finnish Highway for the First Time

 

[FJAG]

F35 requires an environmentally controlled hanger and specialty tooling/techniques to maintain the stealth surfaces. Someone previously commented on this blog that our hangers won’t be ready in time for our aircraft.

Not to worry. We'll just rent some space on various Air National Guard bases. They've been flying F-35s for some time.

 

[ytz]

After reading this, caution when speaking of Ikea-like Gripen assembly lines in Montreal. Unless, tangible, meaningful construction of related parts occur here, the juice may not be worth the squeeze. A number of major concerns would be needed to be overcome, a few look to be quite high to climb...

I warned about this before. They can't simply move the supply chain to Canada. So they get Bombardier to assemble it like IKEA furniture.

Having said this, I’d like to see SAAB math on their figure.

To be fair all companies fudge this. Take dollar amount and escalate by some multiplier.

It's almost like Ukraine is desperately throwing out LOI's and purchase attempts for whatever fighters they can without a lot of rhyme or reason? That's why I didn't put much stock in their Gripen LOI and said it was unrealistic, because fundamentally if they are doing this, we aren't special and I wouldn't be surprised if the LOI turns to dust.

Ukraine doesn't have funds. Donors will be buying. We may end up paying for dozens of Gripens that never wore Canadian colours.

 

[Czech_pivo]

So now Sweden is going to fill any gaps in the RCAF if we walk away/cut back the F-35 procurement? With what exactly? Sure as hell not with the Gripen E, given how Sweden just recently took delivery of their first aircraft, Brazil's orders have been delayed off their original schedule and there is other customers like Colombia and Thailand who are ahead of us on the order book hypothetically. Production of the E model is slow and backlogged, unless Saab is going to send us their own slowly delivering stock or try to pry additional airframes out of Brazil? Is the plan to shuffle off Sweden's existing Gripen C/D fleet off onto the RCAF to hold us over until we set up domestic production? Saddle us with old updated airframes to replace our ancient updated airframes?

The fact that Saab and Sweden is just blatantly pitching nonsense like this without the media calling them out is laughable. It's the classic Saab media blitz with a questionable plan hiding behind the glossy brochure. This unsolicited bid gets more and more questionable as time goes on, I hope nobody in positions of power is actually falling for this farce upon even a cursory glance.

The Media gave up the ghost of responsible journalism years and years ago. Most can’t even proof read their own articles.