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A military changing aircraft means rewriting pilot and maintenance personnel training programs, then retraining everyone, changing logistics chains for a completely different set of spare parts, rewriting tactical plans to match the new aircraft's capabilities & limitations, changing ordnance availability based on what the new platform can carry... changing the aircraft means thousands of follow-on decisions and costs for all of the support structure and military operations built around the aircraft.

Can Sweden supply the number of aircraft that Canada needs? How many, and over how many years? what about spare parts - can Canada manufacture some within its borders, or purchase them from third-party suppliers, or will it be completely dependent on Sweden to supply them? what guarantees can be given about access to those parts? How quickly can pilots be retrained? Can the same type of missiles be mounted on the Gripen, or will the Canadian military have to select different weapons systems, purchase them, and retrain personnel to use and handle them? are the communication, radar and electronic warfare capabilities on these aircraft comparable? can the Gripen perform all of the same mission types as the F-35, or will other aircraft have to provide capabilities and either support, participate in or take over certain mission types? will it fit in current Canadian hangars, or will new facilities have to be built? can it take off and land on the same airstrips as the F-35, or will some have to be modified, or will it simply not be deployable from all of the same locations?

Finally, is the time, effort, internal chaos, and financial cost of changing aircraft worth it? It will take more than 3 years to accomplish these changes. Is waiting for the US administration to change a lower risk/lower cost option?

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 70 points 3 days ago

Are we literally at the "Thank me for abusing you" stage?

Wow.

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 30 points 4 days ago

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What are you going to do with half a pirate flag?

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

3-2-1

3 copies, 2 onsite, 1 offsite.

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Personally I think that every mistake is a teaching opportunity. In this context, rather than try to sweep the racism under the rug of history as quickly and quietly as possible, I think changes should be made but in a way that invites people (especially children) to ask questions about the background of the traditions and why those representations of persons of color are problematic and should be changed. Without this it just looks like an attempt to cover up and deny the existence of the past forms of discrimination, which especially does a disservice to people experiencing present forms of discrimination.

And also, maybe, dealing with these things should not be fast or easy.

Nothing about this is imaginary, because in some ways these problems haven't changed much. There is value in spending time on it in the present.

All of that said, I am a white guy from North America, not a POC from the Netherlands, so my input is just an opinion.

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago

I suspect that they finalized the arrangement with Maxwell.