[CaptainCrunch]

Interesting podcast interview of Billy Flynn who is the former commander of 441 Tactical Squadron, and spend 23 years in the Canadian Airforce before going on to be the lead test pilot on the F-35. They look at the Canadian Air Force and class it as in crisis.

Its a sobering look at things like the P8 program that's now being messed with by Bombardier, the current state of the Canadian Air Force, the mess that was the purchase of the F-35 and more.

Its pretty sobering, even if we get the 88 f-35's which won't be completed until sometime in the next decade. Billy currently classes the situation with the air force as dire and non capable, and laments with the fact that the Air force now has less then 50 combat rated pilots and its getting worse as moral crashes in the pilot community.

The Boeing story is really interesting as our former defense minister made up a capability gap story at the time so the PM could sole source I think 18 SuperHornets, and Boeing put the boots to us on the price tag. (333 million per jet).

Its a sad story of general incompetence, terrible leadership, crashing moral, a ridiculous procurement process, bungling by the Harper and Trudeau governments, and being left with a broken airforce.




I thought I would put this up after watching this tonight and following the story from Wayne Eyre that the Pacific Fleet is pretty non existent capability wise with the Halifax Frigates at end of life and in desperate need of maintenance, Our maritime patrol aircraft are at below 50% capability, and our subs, well its a good day if they can do anything.



Anyways lots to unpack in this podcast, the host isn't that interesting but Flynn certainly is.