Comments on: RCAF’s LGen Eric Kenny on the challenging transition to gain operational advantage

By: Salvi Luker

Salvi Luker — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 21:05:48 +0000

“We have current capabilities that allow us to deal with some of those potential adversaries or threats, but not necessarily to conduct state-on-state deterrence, or integrated deterrence with our allies, and not necessarily to allow us to fight and win if it was required”

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 15:48:18 +0000

But it gets worse. A recruit from Kelowna, BC, cannot proceed to pilot training until he/she demonstrates French language fluency. If not successful within two years, the recruit is punted.This is discrimination, plain and simple.

By: Walter Wakula

Walter Wakula — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:05:05 +0000

I really very much appreciate LGen Kenny’s frank assessment of the RCAF’s readiness and plans and how this integrates with the recently released long term strategy of the force to 2035. It really illustrates the long term planning and syncronization needed to manage this organization which, together with DND, is extremely complex and prone to delay. Great job Gen Kenny.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 02:39:06 +0000

Two years to wait for Phase II pilot training?!! What recruits would want to sit on their hands awaiting the promise of pilot training?
And then only to find out that F-35 pilots can expect no more than 7 hours of flying per month.
The RCAF leadership is grossly incompetent to find itself in this untenable position.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:01:07 +0000

Sooner or later, and we all know this or perhaps only some of us know this.. but it seems DND and Procurement and generally speaking the Government of Canada cannot get it through their thick heads, that you have to swap out the old lap top or desk top sooner than 30 years in order to upgrade and modernize the firm ware you are working with so that you and the tools that you work with can function on an equal footing with your business or defence partners and compete against your adversaries. Right? … Right. Good grief..

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:26:53 +0000

It’s just amazing how our government and military brass think they can recruit more people to join the military when they have to strap into a 40+ year old outdated fighter jet or when a 60+ year old tutor is Canada’s show piece plane. Instead upgrading 36 planes should bought 36 super hornets with the 88 F-35. At least we had a fighting chance.