Canada’s military won’t have new search-and-rescue planes for another 3 years
The Royal Canadian Air Force is relocating two aircraft from Winnipeg to Vancouver Island to address a gap insearch-and-rescue coverage, the result of yet another delay in Canada’s troubled military procurement system.
“As we sit today, obviously, they’ve got an additional line of task,” he said in an interview. “So it will diminish, logically, their ability to do other tasks.” Military search-and-rescue personnel often use specialized airplanes and helicopters to parachute or rappel into remote areas, such as mountains, the High Arctic or one of Canada’s three oceans to respond to plane crashes and sinking ships.Story continues below advertisement
While the Kingfisher is based on the Airbus C-295 military transport used by more than a dozen countries around the world, the version that Canada is buying includes about 30 modifications to the basic design.Some of those modifications were required to meet the Air Force’s mandatory requirements, Crosby said, while others were optional and added by Airbus in an apparent effort to improve its bid.
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