Further to these posts, RCN Canadian Surface Combatant: Intellectual Property Brouhaha Irving Halifax Has Lead Evaluating RCN Canadian Surface Combatant Design/Weapons Systems Bids Irving Working w…
Mark Collins- RCN Canadian Surface Combatant, Irving, Intellectual Property…and Espionage (plus fighters and Trump)
5 DecMark Collins – What Stinking RCAF Fighter “Capability Gap” for NORAD and NATO?
1 DecIt looks like the Liberal Government cooked up a new operational requirement for RCAF fighters without bothering to consult the Air Force itself. GOOD FLIPPING GRIEF. Did the government even speak …
Source: Mark Collins – What Stinking RCAF Fighter “Capability Gap” for NORAD and NATO?
Mark Collins – Now Likely? Canada to Sole-Source Some Super Hornets for RCAF After All?
22 NovFurther to this post, keep your eyes open during my blogging break for a week beginning tomorrow, November 22–whole lot of anonymice being sources: Cabinet could decide fighter jet plan as ea…
Source: Mark Collins – Now Likely? Canada to Sole-Source Some Super Hornets for RCAF After All?
Mark Collins – RCAF and F-35: New Fighter Requirements, NORAD and Overseas
9 NovA Canadian Global Affairs Institute tweet of a pro-F-35 piece: But see from 2014: F-35 and Canada: Good for “Discretionary” Missions, But… …its “capabilities…are not a good fit for Canada’s non-dis…
Source: Mark Collins – RCAF and F-35: New Fighter Requirements, NORAD and Overseas
Mark Collins – F-35 JPO PEO Goes to Ottawa
28 OctLt. Gen. Bogdan pays us a visit: U.S. pitches F-35 jet to Ottawa as Liberals aim to replace fleet The U.S. Air Force made a last-minute pitch [the general actually represents the whole Pentagon] to…
Mark Collins – “The Fourth Dimension: The F-35 Program, [Canadian] Defence Procurement, and the Conservative Government, 2006–2015”
15 SepHave a look at Vimy Paper 33 by Richard Shimooka (a long-time supporter of the Joint Strike Fighter), at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute; lots of–unattributed–inside st…
Mark Collins – Yes, Virginia, There is a Canadian “Cabinet Committee on Defence Procurement”
22 AugFurther to this excerpt from an earlier post, … Sources said the file is currently in front of the cabinet “ad hoc” committee on defence procurement, which is chaired by Natural Resources Min…
Source: Mark Collins – Yes, Virginia, There is a Canadian “Cabinet Committee on Defence Procurement”
Mark Collins – War Between the Dragon and the Eagle: USN Carriers up to It?
5 AugFurther to this post (note “Comments”), RAND on War Between the Dragon and the Eagle the carriers’ future capabilities are questioned (both the people quoted are retired naval off…
Source: Mark Collins – War Between the Dragon and the Eagle: USN Carriers up to It?
Mark Collins – New RCAF Fighter: Debate on F-35 vs Rest, esp. Super Hornet
2 AugFurther to this post and “Comments”, New RCAF Fighter: Consult, Consult, Consult (with industry)–Why Not Just Compete? the start of two interesting posts by two different people at Miln…
Source: Mark Collins – New RCAF Fighter: Debate on F-35 vs Rest, esp. Super Hornet
Mark Collins – Canadian-Based Cyber Chispy Sentenced in US
15 JulFurther to this post, Cyber Espionage vs US Defence Industry: Chinese Resident of Canada Pleads Guilty there is of course no connection to anyone official in Dragonland. Right. See what the Chicom …
Source: Mark Collins – Canadian-Based Cyber Chispy Sentenced in US