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Boeing to offer P-8 as CP-140 Replacement

give the globaleye to the coast guard for Arctic patrol and include one station for military. Home base in BG which will keep Quebec happy and patrol westbound to Inuvik, overnight and then the return trip. Shouldn't have a problem staffing a single position and would free up the P8s for the east and west coast and to pursue any observations from the man on the Bombardier without maintaining what would be primarily a fruitless effort in the Arctic

The Arctic piece is better covered with space assets IMO. I’d be more wanting to use a non-torp carrying aircraft differently.
 
give the globaleye to the coast guard for Arctic patrol and include one station for military.
…not sure if you were tracking, but the Coast Guard doesn’t guard costs, it tends buoys and breaks ice.

#misnamedagency
 
Well they are pretty good at guarding their costs, sometimes to a fault.... :giggle:
I know that but the same airplane that is looking for pollution or illegal fishing can easily be tasked with looking for shipping; it all depends upon the sensors being employed.
 
I know that but the same airplane that is looking for pollution or illegal fishing can easily be tasked with looking for shipping; it all depends upon the sensors being employed.
I was listening to the pollution patrol aircraft flying over the fishing fleet and the pilot said "holy crap they have a whole bunch of big pumps down there, they must be for pumping oil......."
It was the herring fleet and what they were seeing was the big vacuums for sucking the fish out of the skiffs and into the holds.
 
Also posted on the CMMA thread:

 
Also posted on the CMMA thread:

Are we going to Canadianize them? Add the CAE AN/ASQ-508A Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) like the India.

CAE, Canadian content for the win.
 
Its not a done deal until the papers are signed. Todays reporting from Politico:

Another bidder: Bombardier, the Canadian aerospace household name, wants to bid on the contract. The company worries a sole-sourced contract is inevitable. CEO ÉRIC MARTEL has raised hell for months about the program, calling for a competition.

More recently, the feds have appeared to take an interest in Bombardier’s proposal. Martel has met with Defense Minister ANITA ANAND. The company has several meetings on the books with politicians and bureaucrats who claim to want to learn more.

The company received a head’s up from PSPC about Monday’s statement, and received assurances that no deal was done.

But the lingering anxiety remains: Are the assurances legit? Or is the fix in?

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Bombardier’s energy would be best spent on expanding the RCAF’s capability with some AEW&C capability (think E-11/P-7(ish), not try to fights CANUS/FVEYs ASW pan-alliance P-8 interoperability/capability thing.
 
Bombardier’s energy would be best spent on expanding the RCAF’s capability with some AEW&C capability (think E-11/P-7(ish), not try to fights CANUS/FVEYs ASW pan-alliance P-8 interoperability/capability thing.
Meanwhile at Bombardier
Wizard Of Oz Dorothy GIF
 
They’re in danger of getting scooped by Gulfstream if they keep up with their shenanigans. For goodness sake, they make USAF’s BACN on the Global platform, offer some of that to the RCAF to augment NORAD or something, instead of trying to piss into the wind fighting what is some clear signaling of Canada working to get back on the good books of the 4OTHREYs…
 
Its not a done deal until the papers are signed. Todays reporting from Politico:



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In the end it's up to the backroom boys and the Trudeau puppeteers.

If the MND can get the purchase past them she will have my respect.

Bombardier is just too much. Told years ago no government money if you do defense work. This is was after the CF18 maintenance contract debacle so they never did much in the defence area.....then missmanage the company so badly that it's just a rump of what it was. They all of a sudden say they deserve defence work now. After causing the problem with Boeing in the first place.
 
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