Seaver

Canadan military does amazing work considering their budget is only 2% of the national budget. They help us greatly, volunteering to take some of the most dangerous regions in Afghanistan to police.

And sure, they don't have long range bombers, but they have the F-18... and that's a damn good plane. The only difference is our F-18s have the carrier support in which they don't... and even then it takes a huge logistical nightmare network to keep those birds in the air. Canada does not have the GDP to support such an undertaking. The fact that they are over there speaks volumes about their loyalty and friendship.

Friendly-fire from the air has been a problem from day one. There are rules which state that planes can fly no lower than 60,000 feet above the deck (higher in some parts). No matter how good you are, it's damn hard to tell the difference between dots at 60,000 feet.

They've discovered a problem which caused many of the incidents, same problem which killed many American soldiers. There is a GPS measuring device which reads it's current exact location, then you look through a scope where you want the bomb to go. It sends a lazer and reads the XYZ axises and determines your target's exact location. You then hit a button and it sends the GPS site to a plane overhead, and it then guides itself there.

Unfortuantely the manufacturer made an engineering error, if the batteries run out and you have to change them it reset's your target's location to your own upon re-booting. So it took a couple of times to realize our (both US/Canadian) troops were requesting air strikes on themselves.

But thanks for calling our airmen blind or stupid, you're welcome for the other 99% of successful airstrikes.

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