Son of a bitch, we crashed a helicopter into our own ship
 

Anyone else see this? It's a proud day for Canadians.

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/02/27...is_crash030227

lol, ok maybe we don't have the most advanced armed forces in the world.

whew, lucky nobody was killed ! :)

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i think they should change the Canadian national anthem to D'oh! Canada

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Every country has screw-ups like that. No biggie. At least nobody got killed.

trust me Armed & Hammered, you wouldn't be saying that if you knew the true state of the sorry condition of our military. it's appalling scandal.

I heard on the news that these helicopters need 30 hours of repairs for every 1 hour of flight...

The Sea Kings are like 20+ year old helis.. Kind of scary... They've been having a whole bunch of problems with them...

Cheers,
Matt

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/02/27..._readers020327

Even better news.. One of our MPs called Americans all bastards! :thumbsup

Cheers,
Matt

more like 40+ years old

Gotta be better than the French.

See Archer? There is a bright side to every story.

Fuck, embarassing isn't it? They should fucking retire them damn Sea King's. Our deficit has shrunk by leaps and bounds, we can afford to throw away a few billion dollars on a good fleet of helicopters now. Ah but we all know where all that money is going though.... hotels, gucci private jets... wine.... expensive dinners.... etc etc

it's pretty bad that during their last peace mission there was one grounded helicopter for every 4 days of the mission. Those things are dropping out of the sky like crazy. I must say that I'm very impressed with the pilots courage. Imagine waking up knowing you have to fly something today that has a 1:4 chance of falling out of the sky.

unfortunately most war equipment out there is at least 20 years old. oddly enough, it's still "cutting edge". the only real exceptions i can think of are the yf-22 & 23. although i don't believe those are in common use yet. the f16 is still king.

look at the stealth, it came around in the 70's... it's as old as the space shuttle. but, it's going to be replaced soon i imagine, since it has a vulnerability now.

The only people Canada should be sending out to any warzone are the special forces....the rest of our troops should be used for peacekeeping missions...

You should see the new submarines canada bought - 9 old diesel subs from the UK Navy that the UK Admiral told us not to buy because they sucked so bad, even when they were brand new.

More like 40+ years old, bought it 1963 I believe. They may have even been used when we bought them, I'm not sure.

First thing I thought.

Its obviously just to get out of duties.

fuck that.

'OTTAWA - A Sea King helicopter slammed into the deck of HMCS Iroquois Thursday, damaging the warship and forcing it to postpone its mission to the Persian Gulf.'

In time of war fuckers cant even drive?

scallywags.

lame.

No fatalities, thats good news at elast..

You Canadians should learn from the US, we NEVER make mistakes like that, ha ha ha.

Um, that was a Canadian helicopter and Canadian ship. No, they are not the most advanced military in the world but they are more equiped than france.

no comment.

France can lick my balls.

I fucked the dumb broad that said that the other day.
Ide rather be an American bastard than a Canadian BITCH though...

Well isn't that just special..

We aren't a fighting nation, and our priorities are a little different..
I will take free healthcare, and better education over a bunch of helicopters anyday of the week and twice on sundays

"A similar response from Americans happened in November, when Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's communications director, Francoise Ducros was overheard calling U.S. President George W. Bush a "moron."

LOL

those seakings shouldn't be in the air. they're looking at getting better helicopters next year, but i believe they should have been grounded long ago.

Wow! That sounds like the U.S. with our indoor this and indoor that for the oh-so-wunnerful congresspeople...

Canada has a military?

http://cbc.ca/stories/2003/02/26/bastards030226

What happened? Ur MP Apologized! heh!

she should be fired.