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axlsalinger
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Feyd
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O'Toole obviously had his flaws but he was the most palatable leader the CPC has put forward in a long time. But yah I don't really get the get the whole "sell the CBC" message that party loves pushing. Obviously they would prefer a fully right-wing controlled media to push their agenda to the masses but it seems the majority of Canadians want the CBC to be a thing. Gee I wonder why.
zeke
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zeke
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Government introduces bill to support space launches from Canadian territory
The federal government is introducing legislation to support space launches in Canada.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
MindzEye
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We're one of the wealthiest countries in the world, which doesn't mean that we have endless resources of course, but we have more money than we need to have a small but modern, automated drone and arty heavy ground force, with a navy capable of marine patrol (hello drones) and asserting arctic sovereignty, with an airforce capable of showing off the random Russian encroachment fuckery.
We shouldn't be interested in the old paradigm of how well our shit fits within the American adverturism framework (the entire idea behind the F-35's for example is that it would make us capable of sending our planes somewhere else in the world to attack someone else because stealth...the fuck are we doing that for now?). It should be about territorial integrity and the ability to ramp up production and share drone and arty tech with our partners if something like a Europe v Russian land war popped off.
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MindzEye
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I mean, if you don't see what's going on in Iran right now and put a significant price on the value of in house rocketry design and production expertise, or on the ability to launch your own satelites and not need Elon or Nasa....
We've allowed multiple generations of technology to just pass us by while we've been happy digging our dirt and selling the stuff we dig out of our dirt to the world.
Kritter
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I am not an expert on the capacity that all countries in the world would have for the ability to send a bunch of missiles in our direction to the point we would need our own to defend or counter strike, but I know one country right below us does have that ability.. I don’t see us out spending them or out producing them on a missile building contest.
zeke
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We need to be able to do everything independently of the US.
MindzEye
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It's not about out spending or our producing them, it's about developing technology they don't. Ukraine is, bar none, the best in the world with small attack and interceptor drones right now. Their development pipeline works the opposite of the American pipeline (the Russians refer to Ukie drone as "kitchen drones" as in, they're built in your grandmothers kitchen...it's meant as a slight, but it does speak to the bottom up development cycle rather than the Raytheon down cycle the US uses).
There's a huge wide open space for development in autonomous drone systems right now. The US owns Reaper style drone space, but those are too expensive for most customers these days. Shit, the Iranians and Yemenis swat them out of the sky at the cost of 30 million per unit. The future is in autonomous drones and swarming tech. That's untilled soil mate.