Defense Watch Watch
Canadian Chinooks: hella strong frogmouth David Pugliese is a reporter for the Ottawa Citizen, who among other things reports on Canadian and international defense issues. He also maintains the Defense Watch blog, which, ah, reports on those issues. It's very useful if you want to keep up with the surrealist practices of DND [Department of National Defense] procurement, who's mandate appears to be literally to "spend money on anything but capability" for national defense. Defense Watch Watch will be me posting from time to time selections that I found interesting/infuriating/some other strong emotion. Cormorant helicopters to be modernized by Italian firm . The EH-101 is our Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopter. Also buried in the article is some interesting details: Canada buying the failed EH-101 Marine 1 airframes not only gave Canada more EH-101s they could use, it also fixed the 'no spare parts problem' that the type had because of DND incom...
