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CAE are offering a lightweight boom mounted MAD for the Saab Swordfish. The idea of a towed MAD was for a long time standard on USN ASW helicopters, the SH3 Sea King had one installed on the Starboard sponson:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...CV-64_1989.jpg
On the SH60B the towed MAD, the ASQ-81 was also mounted on the Starboard side but it was left off the newer MH60R helicopters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk#/media/FileH-60B_Seahawk2.jpg
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Originally posted by DeV View Post'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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First Canadian C295s delivered, Irish ones due early 2023
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Originally posted by DeV View Posthttps://twitter.com/gocaircorps/stat...127305729?s=21
First Canadian C295s delivered, Irish ones due early 2023
Let's take a detailed and exclusive tour of the new generation #C295 #FWSAR search and rescue aircraft built by Airbus for Canada ???????? #WeMakeItFly @RCAF_ARC @CanadianForces
— Airbus Defence (@AirbusDefence) September 25, 2020
Learn more: https://t.co/0wf6UrsgRz pic.twitter.com/1n7l4W8xlg
Strange to think these are to replace the CAF CC-115 Buffalos.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Just saw this pic on the web, so couldn't resist ...
Wonder would it be possible to get Beeb 2 on it?
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Originally posted by DeV View Posthttps://twitter.com/gocaircorps/stat...127305729?s=21
First Canadian C295s delivered, Irish ones due early 2023
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Originally posted by ancientmariner View Post
The MPA's on order for IAC is to have 15m Euro of updates of a nature ( Military) to improve their effectiveness on task. It goes without saying that MPA's should have 360 deg surveillance by radar, AIS display, a range of EO aids with infrared, Marine communications to speak /listen to surface ships, submarine detection capability, launchable defensive systems ( decoys), provide aid to a vessel in distress using droppable liferafts.
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I'm just reacting to a proposed extra expenditure request for our replacement MPA's. There is a need to go beyond being a spectator and a 15m budget might provide airborne systems to include submarine detection which is the principal role of an MPA. Defensive schemes such as decoys AND response weapons are common "fitted for" elements on MPAs. It's a suggestion NOT sure what the money will be spent on. Some are fitted with billeting and catering for overnight or longer waiting at distant airfields.
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Ken Foxe is going fantastic work publicising the efforts the DoD went through to castrate any military capability of the defence Forces. This is the latest on their reluctance to include the defensive suite usually found on aircraft in this role.
Department of Defence sensitivities over installation of “defensive aid suites” in order for two new €110 million aircraft
The Department of Defence recommended spending over €15 million adding defensive equipment to a new aircraft order but were worried it might be seen as policy approval for use in “possible hostile scenarios”.
Internal memos – released by the department – reveal how there were high-level discussions over whether two new C295 aircraft should be fitted with a suite of equipment to protect it in the event of attack.
However, the Department were at pains to say this was not confirmation that the two maritime patrol aircraft might be used in “possible future deployments to conflict zones”.
The two airplanes are currently on order from Airbus Defence and Space manufacturing facilities in Spain with planned delivery dates of March and July 2023.
These submissions were released to Right to Know following an appeal to the Information Commissioner.
You can read the decision here; it makes some important points about public bodies over-reaching with exemptions for cabinet confidentiality.
For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Originally posted by na grohmiti View PostKen Foxe is going fantastic work publicising the efforts the DoD went through to castrate any military capability of the defence Forces. This is the latest on their reluctance to include the defensive suite usually found on aircraft in this role.
casa-complete.pdf (documentcloud.org)
I see DAS is mentioned but not ASW?
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Originally posted by DeV View Post
Ireland doesn’t future proof
I see DAS is mentioned but not ASW?For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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