[Newsbot]

Title: Spy plane program ditched as National Defence eyes surplus U.S. planes
Category: Military
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2014-08-08 06:39:40
Canadian

[Benn]

Buying other peoples crap. How are those Subs doing anyhow?

[Jabberwalker]

Let someone else do our spying for us. It works with the rest of our defences, doesn't it Mr. and Mrs. Canadian taxpayer?

[BRAH]

Canada should being back the Avro Arrow as it's spy plane.

[Gunnair]

BRAH BRAH:

Canada should being back the Avro Arrow as it's spy plane.

[ShepherdsDog]

That'd be as stealthy as all hell, a monster fighter bomber, with 50 year old technology acting as a spy plane.........wait a sec, that sounds like GoC and DND SOP

[BRAH]

Canada is capable of bringing back the Avro Arrow and building it to today's technology standards, this is Canada we can do anything.

[saturn_656]

The MC-12W is a Super King Air with a sensor suite.

I am not "wow'ed" but then again we've never set our sights high.

[herbie]

They should buy an SR71 Blackbird, coolest plane ever built.
Make airshows pay to display it. Charge $20 just to touch it. Probably bring in more $$ for the military than they'd ever pry from a gov't budget.

[bootlegga]

$1:

The Conservatives had initially set aside $3 billion to replace the planes — the leading candidate was the Boeing P-8 Poseidon — but deep defence cuts forced a re-evaluation.

Par for the course...

[ShepherdsDog]

herbie herbie:

They should buy an SR71 Blackbird, coolest plane ever built.
Make airshows pay to display it. Charge $20 just to touch it. Probably bring in more $$ for the military than they'd ever pry from a gov't budget.

hire some students to dress in X men costumes too

[Xort]

Benn Benn:

Buying other peoples crap. How are those Subs doing anyhow?

The US makes mostly quality stuff once they hammer it out a bit. The UK makes bad gear that gets worse as they try and fix it.

[Gunnair]

bootlegga bootlegga:

$1:

The Conservatives had initially set aside $3 billion to replace the planes — the leading candidate was the Boeing P-8 Poseidon — but deep defence cuts forced a re-evaluation.

Par for the course...

Yep.

[Jabberwalker]

You remember what the bean counter on here said. If you take better care of your stuff, you wouldn't need new gear every three or four decades.

[Gunnair]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

You remember what the bean counter on here said. If you take better care of your stuff, you wouldn't need new gear every three or four decades.

Yep. According to the professionals, we should have only replaced our WW2 fleet 15 or so year ago.