What aircraft are in the supplementary estimates? More troops
Here is a cryptic sentence in a story about funding for the military:
The estimates are here (National Defence starts at p. 230) and for the life of me I can't figure out what the sentence quoted refers to--can anyone help?
One concrete thing; "Funding to increase the Canadian Forces by 5,000 regular force troops and 3,000 reservists".
There will also be funds to acquire aircraft to transport troops and equipment over long distances, short distances and into remote areas and will include the acquisition of helicopters.Now this could cover C-17s, C-130Js, and CH-47s--but what aircraft are meant by "short distances and into remote areas"? Could they be the long-delayed fixed-wing SAR replacement?
The estimates are here (National Defence starts at p. 230) and for the life of me I can't figure out what the sentence quoted refers to--can anyone help?
One concrete thing; "Funding to increase the Canadian Forces by 5,000 regular force troops and 3,000 reservists".
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 9:18 a.m.
3 Comments:
Twin Otter replacement? Just a wild-assed guess, here.
Babbling: That might be way to buy some Q Series from Bombardier though they don't have a great short-field capability, while getting C-27Js or C-295s for fixed-wing SAR (and with better short-field capability in case of need).
Mark
Ottawa
"Lockheed Martin and aircraft maker EADS CASA recently rolled out the first production airframe of the HC-235A medium range surveillance maritime patrol aircraft. Produced in Spain with substantial U.S. components, including avionics, propulsion, and integrated subsystems, the HC-235A is the first new aircraft developed for the U.S. Coast Guard's Integrated Deepwater System program under contract to Integrated Coast Guard Systems (ICGS)..."
http://152.121.2.2/hq/g-a/Deepwater/media/newsletter_march06-02.htm
Mark
Ottawa
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