Tuktoyaktuk CF-18 - The Arctic Fly By

[wjp255]

God Bless Canada!

[GooseMoose7]

If Canada needed me.

Id be there quicker that a blink.

[DrunkenTundraMonkeys]

@GooseMoose7 my good sir, I would be right next to you!

[MrSistermaryelephant]

Sometimes, when I masterbate, I finger my anus, and wonder what it would be like to have a vagina

[Linescrew1]

Wow. Great that you caught this on camera! I don`t think they could legally get away with flying so low here in Vancouver, but shows how Ottawa`s borrowed money can exert their presence even on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. So where are they building the new Starbucks Coffee shop there in Tuk? lol.

[colefromwpg]

The next war will involve Russia & China. The US may be technologically advanced but it is highly out numbered. Additionally, the Chinese have stolen much in the way of US military technology. The US is financially broke and has little manufacturing capability left.

From a strategic view, the US would not last long - except in a global nuclear exchange. Beyond that short lived scenario, the US wouldn't survive.

[colefromwpg]

The next war will involve China & Russia. Though the US is technologically advanced, it is broke and out numbered. 

[awsomeman192]

The Next war will be in or about the Artic and Russia would kick canadas ass but America would then join and ww3 will begin....

[JTF2CSOR1]

@awsomeman192 There is only one country that could logistically beat Canada in a war and that is the US. Tactically and logistically speaking, Russia would not stand a chance in hell taking Canada. Firstly, North America is defended by NORAD, so they have no chance of surprising Canada or the US. Secondly, every free nation on earth would come to Canada's defense and finally pay Canada back for when Canada defended them!

[awsomeman192]

@JTF2CSOR1 yes, but canada vs russia alone and canada doesnt stand a chance, russia has around 1.2million personnel and almost 23million on reserve canada has 67,000....

[Burgoyne]

@awsomeman192

We'd fight to the last though...give them a nice big scar.

>_>

<_<

[JTF2CSOR1]

@awsomeman192 Canada vs Russia alone? Canada would win.

Canada is even more capable today than they were in WW1 and WW2. In WW2 1.1 million Canadians served. Canada has the technology and manufacturing sector, plus the natural resources required, to build one of the largest armies in the world at a moments notice. Don't forget, Russia would have to take Southern Canada, which is tactically and logistically impossible today. They wouldn't make it half way.

[cf80to01]

@JTF2CSOR1 Bear in mind... the weapons of WW2 were relatively simple to build. Modern nations must fight  wars on a "come as you are basis". A modern fighter takes about 12-18 months to build, warship, 18-36 months. Canada has no capability to build fighters or tanks. Training for basic army fighting skills.....18 months minimum. Trades training to support larger weapons systems...48 months. Give your head a shake.

[FatFred2U]

@cf80to01 As a former CF-18 AWST I will assure you it takes nothing like 48 months to train for that trade. As for infanteers (or as we like to call them in the Air Force - small, slow-moving, ground targets), get them through Basic (putting your shirt on with the tags on inside and lace your boots without inflicting injury on yourself), teach 'em how to dig a slit trench and how to fill it back in, and remind them which end to point down-range and they're good to go.

[cf80to01]

@FatFred2U All I can tell you then is that Air Force trades are far easier to master than land trades. I served in a tech trade in the army for 21 years. Of that 21 years I spent almost 5 years at CFSCEE and CFSCE. I spent 6 years with the RCR, one year with the RCD ,4 years with the RCHA, 4 years with CTCHQ Maint Coy and 4 years with the Navy. You bullshit your friends, I'll bullshit mine, but lets not bullshit each other. You either know better or you weren't in the service...........

[FatFred2U]

@cf80to01 Yes of course, working with advanced electronics, digital logic, acquisition and targeting, every possible kind of explosive and munition, as well as a thorough knowledge of every other aircraft system (air frame, aero-engine, instrument electronics, comm-radar, integrated systems and safety systems) were all SOOOOO easy to master. Certainly much easier to ace than any trade who's primary tools are a rifle and a spade. There's a reason guys like you get to be LF,... cannon fodder!

[cf80to01]

@FatFred2U Yet again you miss the point to my post. I am sure you are every bit as smart as you seem to believe you are, HOWEVER, my point was this..... the arrogance you exhibit is insulting. I spent time at CFSCEE with AW Techs and they were no more skilled at their trade than I was at mine. To imply that your skill set is somehow harder to learn or earn than mine or that of a combat arms soldier is foolish. You simply do not know what you are talking about and I am bored with you now.

[FatFred2U]

@cf80to01 The CFSCEE portion of the POET Course took only 3 months, and consisted of nothing more than a review of high school math and very basic electronics (at least it did when I was in Kingston in 1986). POET at CFSATE adds another 2 months, followed by BDT and Basic Tools (and lots of time on PAT). The actual AWST course takes about 6 months followed by XG/9L (solid-state and digital logic) for another month. How does that add up to 48 months (wanna borrow my calculator?)?

[cf80to01]

@FatFred2U I assume you you ask "how does that add up to 48 months" because I said I spent almost 5 years at CFSCEE/CFSCE. Here is how... POET-3.5mth, QL3-4.5 mth, Bell 1A1 Tel sys-2wk, QL5/HRS-6mth, 106/142-3.5mth, MACS 3.5mth, 515 3wks, RADIAC 3 wks, FABCS 1 wk, QL6A 5 mths, WSC-3 (actually at the fleet school in Stad....my bad for including that in my education at CFSCEE)-6wks, NVIS theory + Harris HF radio -3wks, MEROD-2 wks plus crypto and pre CFS Alert training.

[FatFred2U]

@cf80to01 By the way dude, it shoots big holes in your credibility when you list 24 years of postings for a supposed 21 year career. Not that FAIL with numbers is surprising from a wannabe retread. So you remustered NAVY, because even though the AF has a chronic shortage of pers., you found that even steward can be too much of a challenge for some. Hahahaha, would be funnier if it wasn't so sad, PATHETIC!

[cf80to01]

@FatFred2U Well with all your experience in the CF I would have thought you knew that on any course under 6 months you remain posted to your parent unit. After Cornwallis and CFSCEE (Basic and QL3) I was never posted to a school again. It isn't quantum mechanics, but it is apparently too difficult for you to understand. Soldiers remain on strength with their unit while on a course at a school . Clearly you are not nearly as clever as you think you are. Nice try though.

[cf80to01]

@FatFred2U Although you have been proven to be an idiot, who may not have actually worn the uniform.....I thought I would add the fact that personnel can be posted to units outside their Command. I was Army and was posted to a Navy Station, Air Force personnel are posted to ships. ......To quote you...."Hahahaha, would be funnier if it wasn't so sad, PATHETIC!"

[JTF2CSOR1]

@awsomeman192 Although Canada's military is small, it's the best small military on earth, hands down. At a moments notice, Canada could draft millions of Canadians and force the industrial sector to start producing, like they did in WW2. Canada spat out over 800 thousand vehicles, tanks, ships and planes during WW2. We could easily double that amount today.

If Canada had the same tax base as the US, no doubt, Canada would rule the world. 

[TheNorthernWolf117]

@JTF2CSOR1 That's a good thing? Also,I think drafting is illegal now,and people'll refuse. Can't force the fucking country to join the Military,I'm enlisting in the RCAF,and I even think it's wrong to draft :S

[cf80to01]

@JTF2CSOR1 Nonsense. The weapon systems of today take far too long to produce....including a Pte in any trade. Any war of the future will be come as you are.

While the CF is good, it is debatable which is best. The CF has NO amphibious capability (despite having the longest coastline on earth), a tiny Navy and tiny Air Force. All three services will suffer as the budget has to be balanced. Give your head a shake.

[phil2856]

The Artic does belong to Canada,,,no question..

Thanks CF-18's.!

[NortherHunter]

so we can waterskip drive around town w/psi or tuned pipes but thoughs planes can fly all over ?

[Dorisequador]

Artic belongs to canada

[Pentazer]

If those are indeed CF-18 then they are Canadian aircraft and that would be Canadian airspace. There is no airspace violations going on there...except maybe subsonic flybys at low altitude resulting in waayyy too much noise.

[gtrefghuk]

Damn those things are loud.

[matin011]

where was this

[DrunkenTundraMonkeys]

says in the title , Tuktoyaktuk

[girlyman58]

where was this video taken around in tuk?

p.s id so laugh if you tripped by the ski-doo.

[angustus5]

nice to know we've got them patrolling out there....

[nascarracing388]

nice

[DrunkenTundraMonkeys]

almost not

[DrunkenTundraMonkeys]

I was, yes. But you do see how quickly they come and go, don't you?