Liberals Vow to Cancel Jet Fighter Project

[fish4life]

Again, the F-22 is not available.

CANADA SHOULD GO ALL THE WAY AND BUY 100+ F22S!!!!!!!!! WE COULD WORK IT OUT!

I'm sure some sort of agreement could be made to work eg "we let you install all those missile defense systems in the arctic in exchange for 100 half price F-22's lol

[x15]

...One of these days we're going to need air support, God forbid, and 2 guys in a J3 with a 410 and a stick of dynamite ain't gonna cut it...

+1

[Shiny Side Up]

But now that you are talking about former USSR communist country I don't quite follow you anymore. That is a whole different universe and it is hard to do any comparison.

Step away for a bit from the "C" word and realise that in essence both of these countries - much like Canada - were and still dominated, economically and in military considerations by a larger, more populous neighbor with a larger defence industry. Even though the iron curtain is largely gone, they still remain with that sphere of influence, and remain heavily Socialist in economic/political leanings (remember that communism is essentially a form of socialism, much like marxism, leninism, maoism, stalinism and a variety of others - the real differences being how much control the state has and how it enforces it, but I digress)

Aero and PZL have both managed to survive albeit in considerably lessened capacity and still have production and design capacity within their home countries. Canada by contrast has lost ours - Since Bombardier took over Canadair. Oddly enough even our competitor in Brazil maintains the some capacity within its industry.

You could have taken Norway, some similarities (But Norway being far much richer than Canada, they have a GDP per capita twice as much as in canada) and no jet fighter of their own.

A good comparrison, since Both from influence from NATO and requirements Canada and Norway have a similar task from their militaries (both are also constitutional monarchies as well, though Norway slightly more socialist than we are, though less than Sweden if you're stuck on that part) Unlike Canada, who performs partly its commitment to NORAD as the air defender for the U.S. Norway performs as a sea defender. The larger threat there being, in the days of the Cold War, Russian subs leaving their pens in the north. Consequently, instead of requiring fighter planes, they are more concerned with having a good submarine fleet...

[W5]

Can Lockheed deliver on the Joint Strike Fighter dream?

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... dream.html

[Beefitarian]

I hear we're paying to keep Bombardier running anyways. I vote we buy one JSF and copy it to save on building the rest.

[aviator2010]

I hear we're paying to keep Bombardier running anyways. I vote we buy one JSF and copy it to save on building the rest.

or we could just buy the chinees nock off