National Defence committee  It's certainly not yearly, sir, no.

National Defence committee  In my personal experience, it was a redundancy. I never had to turn one off. The F-18 engine, the F-404, is remarkably reliable, so much so that the Swedes have put it in their single-engine Gripen that they operate in the high north, as well, with no loss rates, as well. With

National Defence committee  Very few, in my experience. I flew the F-18 for 2,500 hours and a lot of time in Inuvik, as well, and during that 2,500 hours, I never lost a single engine. Both continued to operate all the time. I never hit a bird in an F-18 during that time, either. The other point I would ad

National Defence committee  It can apply. You can use the architecture if the country decides to do so.

National Defence committee  If I could answer that one, sir, you could give your voice a rest. I've done two tours with NORAD, so I'm intimately familiar with it, and I was the deputy commander of the Alaskan NORAD region, just to show the bi-nationality of the arrangement. There is nothing in the NORAD ag