As for the party in power, they've done nothing to the forces, as they haven't even been in office 6 months yet.
RESPONSE: it should have been obvious that I was referring to whatever party is in power, not the Conservatives. But speaking of them, under Mulrooney they were mostly trying to line their pockets on the military spending. The same people are behind this new refabricated conservative party.
Remember the Avro with the Iriqious(?) engine. Halted under American pressure so we couldn't market it.
Actually the
ARROW with the
Iroquois engines was halted due to out of control costs. The Americans had orders to buy 500 arrows upon completion, so why would they halt the production?
RESPONSE: dig a little deeper. It was nearing production stage. Yes it was the most expensive platform ever developed in Canada, but those costs had already been covered. The per unit costs would have been greatly reduced on full production. The project was halted because it would have been the only effective counter to the U2. That fact was pushed by the American aerospace industry on Ike. Dauglas and Lockheed did not like compitition. And of course the Canadian Conservatives liked to suck up to the Americans.
So answer this, what is wrong with Hillier. And dont say he's too outspoken as that isn't a negative quality for a leader.
RESPONSE: as defence minister he demoralized the military. I quess you're too young to know that, but it still echoes in some parts.
My god we had to wait for a Russian transport to get our emergency team to New Orleans.
It wasn't a Russian plane, it was an Antanov aircraft of Russian design.
RESPONSE: So it was a Russian transport, but because I said it, it can't be true. Is there some kind of peculiar bias creeping in here :?:
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That's because the Liberal party never bought us heavy lift aircraft, or as Jean Chretien once said "a waste of money when we can rent them". A military should not have to
rent resources.
RESPONSE: so this discredits your response about having the best hardware in the world. In truth we don't. and if we started looking into design and production we would be lightyears ahead of where we are now. We can do it. We need to do it. And often the hardware we could produce would have civilian adoption / use. Like a good twin engine helecopter. But the Americans wouldn't stand for the compitition. Do we even make a decent rifle? I don't think so. We depend on makers such as Colt. and we know their safety record! and their record for smuggling weapons into Canada.
