Tuktoyaktuk CF-18 - The Arctic Fly By

With Russia staking a claim on the Arctic, Canada wants to let them know that were here also.

Two CF-18's quickly come and go.

Video taken March 28th, 2009.

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[GooseMoose7]

If Canada needed me.

Id be there quicker that a blink.

[DrunkenTundraMonkeys]

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

[matin011]

where was this

[DrunkenTundraMonkeys]

says in the title , Tuktoyaktuk

[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.

[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!"

[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.

[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 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 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.

[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.

[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!

[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 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 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.