This was a St. Patricks Day joke that i got emailed… I hope it does not offend anyone…

“As good as this bar is,” said the Scotsman, “I still prefer the pubs
back home. In Glasgow , there’s a wee place called McTavish’s. The
landlord goes out of his way for the locals. When you buy four drinks,he’ll buy the fifth drink.”

“Well, Angus,” said the Englishman, “At my local in London , the RedLion, the barman will buy you your third drink after you buy the first two.”

“Ahhh, dat’s nothin’,” said the Irishman, “back home in my favourite pub, the moment you set foot in the place, they’ll buy you a drink, then another, all the drinks you like, actually. Then, when you’ve had enough drinks, they’ll take you upstairs and see dat you gets laid, all on the house!”

The Englishman and Scotsman were suspicious of the claims. The Irishman swore every word was true. “Did this actually happen to you?”

“Not meself, personally, no,” admitted the Irishman, “but it did
happen to me sister quite a few times ….”

Thanks Bgnewf for keeping me updated about the Canadian participation….Not having internet or cable television at home, i’m kinda out of the loop…

Thanks for the reply Batman…

But I think Canada is going to need an aircraft that will last a long time. With countries going LO/VLO, I think we want to be in that game as well.

EELightning, I wouldn’t mind if Canada went for any of the eurocanards. But big brother down south is very persuasive. We finally have a prime minister with some backbone, but that only goes so far.

We set the mark for $9 billion in hopes that it will be locked in place, but as everyone has witnessed, the price of the F-35 continues to grow.

I wish we did do a comp between different fighters for a bid instead of picking the ugly duckling, but I also know that we want what’s current and with the trend….. Everybody wants to buy it…. Canada is definitely not a leader but a follower.

Harper is trying to get our military up to standards. first with the Cormorant (EH-101) for SAR, The Sikorsky for the navy, Leopard 2 for the army, C-17, C-130J, and now F-35 for the airforce. Our military has been neglected long enough.

Voodoo

Nice find.

Are we delivering Toyota trucks to Afganistan now? I know we are hurting for equipment but come on….:D

Voodoo

I thought the F-14 was too heavy for essex class carriers. During the vietnam war, didn’t they fly F-8 for fleet defence as the F-4 was considered too heavy as well.

Would have been nice to see one in RAN service. Would have been nice to see one in RCN service as well After losing the Bonnie…

Maybe it’s time for a commonwealth navy. Intergrate the navies of the old commonwealth countries to help protect sea lanes and do joint exercises together.

Of course if Britian is erroding it’s navy, will these countries step up to help. I know Canada is having a manpower shortage as is…

Doesn’t Chile use the Mirage 50 upgreded to Pantera standards?

HMCS Iroquois 5,100-tonne will soon be the oldest frontline warship in the western world with the 38-year-old in service.

Canada to spend billions to build new warships

Canada has unveiled a shipbuilding strategy that will spend more than 30 billion Canadian dollars over the next 30 years to build 28 large vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard and navy, as well as 100 smaller ships, Defense Minister Peter MacKay said Thursday.

MacKay said, at the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa, that the federal government will establish a long-term relationship with two Canadian shipyards for the procurement of the large ships, one to build combat vessels, the other non-combat.
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I would like to believe that we would get these ships, but as stated in another thread we would get new ships to replace both Iroquois and Halifax class ships. There was talk of retiring 6 of the 12 kingston class for lack of pesonnel.