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Random 10 List: Things I learned on the first day of CANSEC

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Stephen Trimble
 on May 27, 2009 8:46 PM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0) |
  1. Canada's plan unveiled last year to invest $240 billion over 20 years in military equipment has transformed the formerly sleepy CANSEC show into a bustling, sprawling event, with three packed exhibit halls, about 7,000 attendees and a nearly full showing by industry.
  2. Watch your back, F-35.  Boeing and Eurofighter are pitching the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and Typhoon, respectively, here at CANSEC despite Canada's participation in the nine-nation F-35 partnership.
  3. Elbit Systems will unveil a new small tactical unmanned aircraft system (STUAS) at the Paris Air Show. The aircraft will be offered to the US Navy and US Marine Corps, via the newly-formed UAV Dynamics joint venture with General Dynamics.
  4. Peace protestors in Ottawa are extremely polite. One of them even wished me a nice day, even though she thought I was a defense contractor -- or, as her sign put it, "merchant of death".
  5. An industry day scheduled on 26 May to launch the joint unmanned surveiillance target acquisition system (JUSTAS) contract competition was canceled at the last minute by the Canadian government. No explanation.
  6. Canada is the only major NATO power I can think of that lacks a defense industrial policy.
  7. Sikorsky (CH-148 Cyclone) and Bombardier are the most surprising exhibit hall no-shows at CANSEC.
  8. Canada's Viking Air Ltd is proposing to modernize Canada's fleet of DHC-5 Buffalos - designated the CC-115 -- rather than replace them with all new aircraft, such as C-27Js or C-295s.
  9. Ottawa weather in late-May can be as bad as Washington DC weather in early March.
  10. Despite its growing popularity, CANSEC is still not used as a platform for Canadian government or industry to announce major policy or equipment decisions.

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