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Originally Posted by automaton 3
A few purchases have gone ok, in particular the Globemasters and new Hercules. The key seems to be that those were bought pretty much "off the rack".
Where they seem to really get bogged down is when try to customize equipment to a high degree. We end up with either hugely expensive orphan fleets that never work quite right ie Cyclone, or industry throwing up their hands and saying we can't do that ie the UAV program that now has to be reset.
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I don't know, I'm not an airforce guy, but the F-18's are unique in the world and that one went pretty smoothly.
The Halifax Class Frigates were a unique build, we could have gone out and bought a American class of vessel, but the Halifax's worked out.
Some of the sensor upgrades on Canadian recce vehicles worked out well too.
But the purchases as of late haven't been well handled. But to be honest, I don't think that there is such a thing as a smooth military procurement, and its getting more complex because weapons systems are getting way way more complex.
A Russian general at a conference a couple of years back complained that it used to be easy to recruit and train a infantry soldier, but now they have to recruit and train computer operators.