azimuthaviation wrote:Canada is still bound by the covenant it made to that irrelevant cold war era organisation? For what reason in 2014? What has NATO ever done operationally? Provided air support in third world conflicts while outsourcing the ground fighting to the locals? The KLA, the NTC, Northern Alliance. Is that what NATO was created for? Is that what Canada signed up for? Why does Canada have to constantly adapt to NATO's ever changing mandate which is dictated by superpowers with their own agendas? Its obvious what they have to gain, financially, militarily, politically, but why do we have to pick up the tab?
You do realise this has nothing to do with aircraft procurement?
Given the current political choices made by Canada, what is the fighter that would be the best choice the replace the Hornet?
This is what this discussion should be about.
You can talk politics if you want, and there are plenty of things to reconsider and criticize, but this is an aviation forum, and this is a F-35 thread, so I think it's beside the point. In any case, saying we should simply not buy fighters makes sense to me. However, using this argument to end up saying we should buy fighters, but not F-35, is simply ignorant.
azimuthaviation wrote: while theres healthcare crisis, our retirement age was bumped up two years, we cant afford to keep the mail delivered, and veterans benefits are being slashed is obscene.
Again... how is that an argument against the F-35? It's an argument against buying fighters. It's totally valid, but has nothing to do with the specifics of the F-35, which you know nothing about.
azimuthaviation wrote: Talking about procuring the most advanced fighter jet in the world (which its not)
Oh and there I thought you were saying we should not spend money on such a high end machine...
Coherence doesn't seem to be your strong point in this discussion.
Please tell me about more advanced fighters, I'd love to read about them.
azimuthaviation wrote:
I said Canada's fighter jet fleet should be similiar to Iceland's. Canada's high arctic territory is comparable to the geography of Iceland's and they sleep soundly with what they have.
What they have is fighters from allied countries doing the job. I love how the most misinformed are always those with the strongest opinions.