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AIR FORCE RENAISSANCE? Canada Signals a Renewed Commitment to Military Funding THINK CRITICAL MISSIONS an MHM PUBLisHinG MaGaZine 2017 edition Canada’s air ForCe review BroUGHt to yoU By www.skiesMaG.CoM [INSIDE] RCAF NEWS YEAR IN REVIEW RETURN TO THE “BIG 2” BAGOTVILLE’S 75TH FLYING RED AIR VINTAGE WINGS RESET AIR FORCE RENAISSANCE? CANADA SIGNALS A RENEWED COMMITMENT TO MILITARY FUNDING THINK CRITICAL MISSIONS Equipped with cutting edge technology, all weather capability and unrivaled precision and stability in the harshest environments. Armed with the greatest endurance, longest range and highest cruise speed in its class. With maximum performance and the highest levels of quality, safety and availability to ensure success for demanding search and rescue operations - anywhere, anytime. H175 - Deploy the best. Important to you. Essential to us. RCAF Today 2017 1 Mike Reyno Photo 32 A RENAISSANCE FOR THE RCAF? The Royal Canadian Air Force appears to be headed for a period of significant renewal, with recent developments seeming to signal a restored commitment to military funding. By Martin Shadwick 2 RCAF Today 2017 2017 Edition | Volume 8 42 IN THIS ISSUE 62 20 2016: MOMENTS AND 68 SETTING HIGH STANDARDS MILESTONES The many important “behind the scenes” elements of the Canadian Forces The RCAF met its operational Snowbirds include a small group of 431 commitments and completed a number Squadron pilots known as the Ops/ of important functions, appearances and Standards Cell and the Tutor SET. historical milestones in 2016. Here, we revisit just a few of the year’s happenings. By Mike Luedey 30 MEET THE CHIEF 72 PLANES AND PASSION RCAF Chief Warrant Officer Gérard Gatineau’s Vintage Wings is soaring Poitras discusses his long and satisfying to new heights, powered by one of its journey to the upper ranks of the greatest assets—the humble volunteer. Canadian Armed Forces. By Lisa Gordon By Ken Pole 78 THROUGH THE LENS 42 STRIVING FOR PERFECTION Some of the RCAF’s most defining RCAF Today sent pilot Robert Erdos moments from the past year were back to Moose Jaw to relive the student captured by DND photographers. We’ve experience at the “Big 2.” He discovered rounded up a selection of their very that nothing had changed and yet best images to showcase the men and everything was different. women of the RCAF in action. By Robert Erdos 89 INSIGHT 52 A STORIED PAST 2017 Supplier Showcase. From its early days as a Second World 68 War fighter base, CFB Bagotville has made important contributions to domestic and international defence. This 72 year, the base celebrates 75 years of IN EVERY ISSUE responding to the call. 6 . From the Publisher By Marc-André Valiquette 8 . Briefing Room – RCAF News 62 PLAYING THE PART The USAF 18th Aggressor Squadron is adept at role play, offering “red air” ON the Cover services to prepare Western pilots Two 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron for adversarial encounters. Meet the CH-146 Griffons fly out of the Chocolate Canadian who is the unit’s fighter Mountain gunnery range near Camp weapons tactics expert. Pendleton, located in Southern California, during the biennial RIMPAC Exercise in By Chris Thatcher July 201. Skip Robinson Photo RCAF Today 2017 3 + AVIATION IS OUR PASSION. + VISIT US ONLINE Canada’s best aviation and aerospace website has gotten even better. More amazing content. Brilliant design. An immersive reader experience. 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EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE FLYING We fly the CH-149 Cormorant THE 505 Does the new Jet Ranger have the “X” factor? AIR FORCE SUPPORT MEDITERRANEAN LIFESAVERS HIGH-TECH TRAINING 36th Rescue Squadron Italian Coast Guard Toll Air Ambulance Printed in Canada Insight_NBAA2016-COVER.indd 1 2016-10-11 9:07 AM RCAF Today 2017 5 COLUMN / From the Publisher As RCAF Today was going to press in mid-May, the Canadian Armed Forces was awaiting the much anticipated Defence Policy Review that will spell out how the government will address current mili- tary capability gaps so it can meet the challenges it faces over the next decade and beyond. The government’s review, which has been in the works since last summer, comes after a report was tabled by the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence on May 8. The report addresses what the chair, Conservative Senator Daniel Lang, called “urgent capability gaps.” Among a slew of recommendations made by the committee, in particular pressing the govern- ment to increase defence spending from a mere 0.88 per cent of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP)—the lowest in NATO—to two per cent of GDP by 2028, the report identified a number of capability gaps that need to be urgently filled within the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The laundry list of recommendations includes dumping the proposed acquisition of 18 Boeing F/A- 18E/F Super Hornets that were slated to fill an interim capability gap, and instead moving forward with a competition to replace the RCAF’s aging fleet of 76 CF-188 Hornets with up to 120 new fighters; acquiring a fleet of 24 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters; increasing the number of CH-147F Chinook medium-heavy lift helicopters in service from 15 to 36 helicopters; increasing the number of CH-149 Cormorant search and rescue helicopters in service from 14 aircraft to 21 through the modification of A TIME OF seven VH-71 airframes that were acquired from the United States in 2011; modernizing, or even replac- ing, 55 of the 85 Bell CH-146 Griffons in service with a proper military utility helicopter (especially one that can keep up with the fast-flying Chinook and perform better in hot and high conditions), like the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk; replacing the CC-150T Polaris and CC-130H(T) Hercules with a new fleet Renewed of aerial refuelling tankers; increase the number of CP-140 Auroras being modernized from 14 to 18 air- craft; and acquiring a fleet of medium and long range unmanned aerial vehicles.
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