While still a reservist in 2000 I had an opportunity to go on board one of the new small Coastal Patrol vessels at the Naval base in Esquimalt, B.C. It's main deck gun was a 40 mm Bofors so I guess these old guns are still soldiering on in Canadian service. Anybody who has recently served in the Canadian Armed Forces can tell you stories about old equipment! When getting flown about in Hercs it was always a perverse interest of mine to find out which was older....the pilot or the plane! No need to answer which was the oldest! An friend of mine in Fort Worth works for Lockheed and he tells me that the Lockheed engineers are very interested in the Canadian Hercs as they are the highest time C-130s in service with a military anywhere! Perhaps its got something to do with corrosion around the piss tubes!
Cheemo!
