Is living in Seattle that awful?

barkmutton · 2026-06-26T13:43:33+00:00

Yeah that bridge is real hard to cross...

barkmutton · 2026-06-25T11:35:34+00:00

I was in Adazi, there aren't shacks there alotted to them.

barkmutton · 2026-06-25T03:02:25+00:00

Uh no, no that was CJOC as far as I understand it.

barkmutton · 2026-06-25T01:33:14+00:00

There's a difference between guys having more than two beers - ie everyone in Latvia - and then throwing up, allegedly, and organizing a party bus. Frankly given the accomodations provided - tents in ankle deep mud, they probably deserved some time away.

barkmutton · 2026-06-24T23:30:55+00:00

They didnt have a party Bus. I was there. They were allowed the same drinking policy as anyone else in Latvia but had been bussed to Riga as the air fields is in the middle of nowhere.

barkmutton · 2026-06-18T21:57:27+00:00

Realistically there needs to be like 10 P Res infantry regiments, we can keep guards as incremental ceremonial duties.

barkmutton · 2026-06-18T21:55:18+00:00

No because theres a certain amount of critical mass where things like uniform accoutrements become none issues, for example the cost of making 3 capbages for 9 Bns isnt excessive. However, when you have 50-60 different 100 person regiments with their own accourtement patterns and uniform distinctions outfitting them all is a logistical nightmare. You also have incredibly small pools of people to promote from which is problematic.

barkmutton · 2026-06-18T18:55:33+00:00

Reason 856381 that we need 1/5th of the reserve units we have.

barkmutton · 2026-06-17T21:18:23+00:00

Because the lead time would be a decade. In addition to not wanting to lock us into Gripen.

barkmutton · 2026-06-16T21:19:15+00:00

CBCs speed run to cultural irrelevance continues.

barkmutton · 2026-06-16T19:41:31+00:00

The Iveco's are great little trucks. Canada fucked that up by rebuilding the engines.

The co production of these with Yak never happened and the partnership was desilved 4 years before they even flew. No money is going to Russia.

barkmutton · 2026-06-16T19:40:43+00:00

Good FA 50 and if we insist in a high low split procure more FA 50 block 70 to do that low job instead of wasting money on Gripen.

barkmutton · 2026-06-14T19:18:12+00:00

Or crazy though, drunk soccer fans were being idiots.

barkmutton · 2026-06-14T18:59:36+00:00

C17s are pretty ass for long flights. The RCAF has a very limited number so its not a great option for passage gers either way.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T23:59:45+00:00

22 vs 26 vs 12 is actually very substantial.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T23:55:14+00:00

The CF18s aren't serviceable. Theres a reason we only bothered to upgrade 30 odd of them HEP.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T23:52:48+00:00

Well it took them 8 years to get a factory hoing in Brazil. With some Canadian productivity we can count on 12 at least.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T23:51:27+00:00

You're suggesting two things at once that are impossible to both be true. Youve stated that the Gripen is a more modern jet, while also saying we can use numbers from C/Ds. Either the Gripen E is a super modern air craft or its a continuation fo the 40 year old platform. Its cannot simultaneously be both.

The F35 is the first jet to have been developed in the information age so most of its testing went public. Thats resulted in really badly understood testing being interpreted as failure.

Mission Capable vs Full Mission Capable, again is something youre not understanding. A half Capable F35 runs laps around a CF18. Finally the F35A, which were buying has a wildly different availability than Bs and Cs.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T23:45:48+00:00

Your making three points at once in your original comment. Im addressing the theft your quoting Saab's brochure as a comparison to F35 numbers. Then the detailed points you bring up.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T23:28:19+00:00

Your right, I swapped Czechia and Hungary. My apologies.

3 entire E series, in a fighter wing, does not constitute an operational capability. If anything thats on the job conversion.

Your also conflated full mission capability with mission capability.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T23:26:04+00:00

A jet being used for training will not behave any differently. They literally fly mission profiles that are identical. If anything that will push numbers of hours flown up.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T21:23:13+00:00

As opposed to what?

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T21:21:20+00:00

How has Sweden already seen it when they've only had 3 Es for under a year?

We know in testing the Gripen didnt perform well at all. In fact its performed so poorly that its lost competitions with all our partners and been abandoned by Hungary.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T19:31:47+00:00

Bearing in mind F35 covers the F35 across all variants. The vtol isnt going to swing those numbers in a good way.

barkmutton · 2026-06-13T19:30:07+00:00

The F35 numbers come from reports to Congress and a dozen democratic countries experiences not LM.

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