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Lieutenant General
Who is Canada going to war with Iceland ?

No need for them to spend money just keep building economy nice country always mind own business

Do they even have a navy ?
 
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Brother please don't post political ... .... here, individuals then join just to babble, and then babble some more
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Jan 30, 2018
Yesterday at 7:45 AM
while
Canada auditor general prepares new fighter jet report
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now the news is
Super Hornet Will Compete In Canada's Fighter Contest As US Navy Funds Conformal Fuel Tanks February 16, 2018
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Despite having soured relations with the Canadian government with
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, Boeing is reportedly still planning to submit a bid on the contract to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force’s
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, almost certainly offering new
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. The Chicago-headquartered plane maker could try to make its submission more attractive
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its already working on for the Super Hornet, such as the range-extending conformal fuel tanks it is developing for the U.S. Navy.

On Feb. 15, 2018,
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, citing unnamed sources, reported that Boeing had formally applied to be a part of Canada’s fighter jet tender, which could be worth an between approximately $12 billion and $15 billion at the time of writing. According to a separate report
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, in the winning company will begin delivering aircraft in 2025 and supply up to 88 planes by 2032.

American firm Lockheed Martin is expected to offer its
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, and possibility a version of
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. European consortium Eurofighter, France’s Dassault, and Sweden’s Saab are also set to submit proposals involving
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,
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, and
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jets respectively.

Whether or not Boeing would take part in the competition has been the topic of much speculation after it
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against Canadian firm Bombardier in 2017. Boeing accused the Canadian firm of “dumping” its CSeries airliners into the American market at artificially low prices thanks in part to subsidies from the government in Ottawa.

In September 2017, the U.S. Department of Commerce sided with Boeing and
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of almost 200 percent on any Bombardier products entering the United States. This in turn precipitated a major international spat with not only Canada, but the United Kingdom, which is home to factory that employs more than 4,000 workers to build wings for the CSeries.

But in January 2018, the U.S. International Trade Commission
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and refused to approve the tariffs, leaving the American company with the options of abandoning the issue or starting its legal challenge all over again. The Canadian government has said that “past and recent economic behavior of potential bidders leading up to the procurement” will have an impact on their chances of winning the fighter deal, according to Reuters.

As a result of the trade fight, Boeing has already lost out on
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to supply 18 Super Hornets to the Royal Canadian Air Force as an interim replacement for some of the CF-18A+ aircraft. Canada is
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a number of older ex-Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18A/B Hornets instead.

It is very likely that the company decided it was not in its best interests not to pursue its dispute with Bombardier, at least for the time being. As we at The War Zone have noted before, Boeing
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to make for supplying F/A-18E/Fs as Canada’s next fighter jet, which offers an established, reliable advanced fourth generation design with a number of highly desirable features, and synergistic commonality with their existing fleet of "legacy" Hornets.

AESA type radars are a relatively easy way to squeeze more capability out of an existing fourth generation fighter jet design, since they give pilots improved capability to identify and engage their targets and extended distances. Canada has already
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to buy the advanced
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, which would make use of the Super Hornet's radar.

Canada could leverage the U.S. Navy’s
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project and get jets with the same or similar improvements while sharing the cost burden. Boeing says those updated aircraft will have
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capability, which would offer another means to detect and target opponents at long range. The final American versions might also have
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, such as a fully enclosed, aerodynamic weapons pod. With stealthy additions, the Super Hornet would be an even more attractive to Canada as a cost-effective alternative to the stealthy F-35.

By the time the Canadian government signs an actual contract for new fighters, many of those improvements are likely to be out of development and in production, as well, further reducing the costs. For example, on Feb. 14, 2018, the Navy announced it would pay Boeing nearly $220 million over the next four years
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conformal fuel tanks for the Super Hornet, another important part of the Block III upgrade program. The Chicago-headquartered firm has already explored the possibility of adding CFTs as part of past Advanced Super Hornet and Super Hornet International projects.

These add-on fuel packs will give the jets between 100 and 120 miles additional combat radius, something that is important for the Royal Canadian Air Force given its primary day-to-day missions of contributing to standing aerial patrols and quick reaction forces defending the skies over North America and those of NATO allies in Europe. CFTs have become
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to get more capability out of existing fourth generation fighter jets since they both extend the aircraft's effective range without the need for drop tanks, freeing up that space for additional weapons or other stores.

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Boeing did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment on the matter, but that’s not necessarily surprising since Canadian authorities have imposed an
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on all competitors. This appears to be an attempt to prevent potentially embarrassing information about the fighter jet replacement project from leaking out to the public. The non-disclosure agreement reportedly prohibits the firms from ever discussing the program, now or in the future.

Canada’s path to replacing its CF-18A+ jets has already been a particularly overwrought debacle. After taking office in 2015, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, head of the Liberal Party, moved to halt the country’s participation the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and hold an all-new fighter jet competition, which had been a
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. Despite repeated difficulties and delays with the jets, the stealthy F-35 had been
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of his Conservative Party predecessor Stephen Harper.

The Trudeau Administration’s change of course on the matter prompted a
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. For more than a year now, it has been struggling to make good on its promise to re-evaluate its fighter jet options, but also
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at the F-35 table in process. At the same time, the CF-18A+s are only getting older and less reliable, with only around 76 aircraft being active at all and far fewer than that being fully mission capable at any one time.

That’s where the aforementioned purchase of Australian Hornets comes in, but those additional jets are of a similar vintage and are unlikely to offer much of a capability upgrade in the meantime. It’s been hard even for Trudeau’s own cabinet to hide their displeasure at how things have gone.

“We needed [new fighter jets] a long time ago,” Canadian Defense Minster Harjit Sajjan
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to Riga, the capital of fellow NATO member Latvia, in September 2017. “We had a plan in place, a very good plan that was going to fill the capability gap, invest in our current fleet, and start the fighter replacement competition.”

How the situation will play out now remains unclear. The Australian Hornets won’t even begin arriving until
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, as the Royal Australian Air Force retires them. As such, deliveries of those 18 jets will happen over a painfully protracted period of three years. By then, the Canadian government hopes to have finalized deal for the full contingent of new fighter jets.

More importantly, Canada’s Federal Auditor General Michael Ferguson, who undercut the Harper Administration’s plans to buy the F-35 in 2012
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, is set to
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of Canadian fighter jet procurement by the end of 2018. There’s no indication the government watchdog will find the kind of malfeasance in the government’s new plans that he did with regards to the Joint Strike Fighter, which included senior defense officials violating rules and deliberately hiding negative details about the state of the project.

However, it is very possible he could call into question whether Canadian taxpayers are getting the best value out of the current courses of action, including the purchase of dated second-hand jets that won’t even be operational for years to come. That’s exactly the kind of question the Trudeau Administration appears to want to try and avoid by making the competitors sign blanket, indefinite non-disclosure agreements about the multi-billion dollar project.

Canada won’t be able to wait too much longer to begin replacing its fighter jets if it wants to avoid a potentially dangerous gap in capability. Even with on-going service-life extension upgrades, the CF-18A+s are likely to be unsafe to fly by 2032, at which point they will have been in service for five decades. This will also more than decades longer than the Royal Canadian Air Force originally planned to be flying the Hornets

Unfortunately, the service has already had to push its planned retirement date for the CF-18A+s back multiple times. Hopefully, the Canadian government can make sure the tired fighter jets don’t have to soldier on even longer.
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Yes Sir Bub! taking her deep, make our depth 690 ft Mr. First, and Flank it!

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Dizasta1

Senior Member
Who is Canada going to war with Iceland ?

No need for them to spend money just keep building economy nice country always mind own business

Do they even have a navy ?

I believe Canada is part of the NORAD, which is the North American Aerospace Defense command. The other member being America itself. So that's probably the reason why Canada needs to maintain an adequate Air Power to contribute to NORAD. It's somewhat like NATO, where America is the "major" partner in the defense alliance and the others follow suit.
 

PiSigma

"the engineer"
I believe Canada is part of the NORAD, which is the North American Aerospace Defense command. The other member being America itself. So that's probably the reason why Canada needs to maintain an adequate Air Power to contribute to NORAD. It's somewhat like NATO, where America is the "major" partner in the defense alliance and the others follow suit.
We are part of NORAD... But only because the Americans need us to secure the north against Russia. Its a mutually beneficial deal for the protection of north america. Not just minor partner.
 
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Jan 30, 2018

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Super Hornet Will Compete In Canada's Fighter Contest As US Navy Funds Conformal Fuel Tanks February 16, 2018
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Canada names suppliers approved to bid in future fighter competition
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Five European and U.S. aerospace firms have been approved to take part in the upcoming competition to provide Canada with
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The project is estimated to cost CA$19 billion (U.S. $15 billion).

The approved suppliers don’t come as a surprise. Over the course of the last five years, those companies have all indicated their interest in providing new fighter jets to Canada.

The aircraft expected to be offered to Canada include Lockheed Martin’s F-35, Boeing’s Super Hornet, the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Dassault Rafale and Saab’s Gripen.

Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Saab, Dassault and Airbus were all named Thursday to Canada’s official fighter jet supplier list, which allows them to receive information about plans to buy 88 jets and ultimately bid on the program.

“We are pleased with the responses received from foreign governments and commercial entities that have the ability to meet Canada’s needs,” Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough said in a statement. “Our government is confident this will result in a robust competition.”

There were some questions about whether Boeing would put its name forth in
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with Canada and its main domestic aerospace firm, Bombardier.

In the midst of that dispute, Canada canceled a plan to buy 18 Super Hornets as a stopgap measure until the new fighters could be acquired. It will now instead buy used F-18 aircraft from Australia to fill in as “interim” fighters.

“Boeing and the US Government have taken the first step in Canada’s Future Fighter Capability Project (FFCP), and the Super Hornet is among the aircraft included on the FFCP Supplier List by the Government of Canada,” Boeing spokesman Scott Day noted in an email. “We will continue to evaluate our participation in the FFCP as the Government of Canada outlines the procurement approach, requirements and evaluation criteria.”

A request for proposals for the new fighter jets will be issued in 2019, Canadian government officials say.

A winning bidder is expected to be selected in spring 2021.

The first aircraft would be delivered sometime in 2025. Deliveries could take place between then and 2031. The new aircraft would replace the Royal Canadian Air Force’s existing CF-18 fleet.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
LAV 6.0 Video just for the sake of it.

Note the part where they strip off 4 of the 8 tires and still drive around. that's the key advantage of a 8x8.
 
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