Funny because this would be their second time dropping the F35. They dropped it originally hoping to get something else over a decade ago, but couldn’t find a cheaper alternative fast enough and then decided to reenter the program and buy F35’s for a more expensive price tag than their original purchase.
Canada ain’t going to have a Airforce soon if they keep flip flopping purchases. Those old CF-18s are barely fly worthy anymore.
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We need *some* form of highly stealthed aircraft ASAP though. For… reasons. Like, within the next year or ideally sooner. Really can’t wait 5 years for procurement of something else.
This is also one way to find out if the ‘Muricans put in a killswitch or secret tracker I guess? Edit: also if the delivery gets “mysteriously” delayed that’ll tell us something too.
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Sounds like we’ll be getting the first 16 no matter what, but ordering Grippens for the rest.
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Tangent – People need to chill about the whole “kill switch” conspiracy theory and understand the actual problem. The US has tons of data on the radar profile of this aircraft. Thus defeating the purpose of the whole stealth thing. This is why we wouldn’t sell it to turkey, since they use the russian s300 SAM system, which comes equipped with, you guessed it, radar. And the s300 also comes with a bonus of russian maintenance men.
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Buy Eurocanard
President xi, send J-40 multi role 6th generation 3 engined stealth fighter bomber, I yearn for freedom
But honestly, the 4.5 gen stuff from Korea seems perfect. They want orders, we need a big upgrade but realistically don’t need 5th gen shit
!Ping can
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Funny because this would be their second time dropping the F35. They dropped it originally hoping to get something else over a decade ago, but couldn’t find a cheaper alternative fast enough and then decided to reenter the program and buy F35’s for a more expensive price tag than their original purchase.
Canada ain’t going to have a Airforce soon if they keep flip flopping purchases. Those old CF-18s are barely fly worthy anymore.
We need *some* form of highly stealthed aircraft ASAP though. For… reasons. Like, within the next year or ideally sooner. Really can’t wait 5 years for procurement of something else.
This is also one way to find out if the ‘Muricans put in a killswitch or secret tracker I guess? Edit: also if the delivery gets “mysteriously” delayed that’ll tell us something too.
Sounds like we’ll be getting the first 16 no matter what, but ordering Grippens for the rest.
Tangent – People need to chill about the whole “kill switch” conspiracy theory and understand the actual problem. The US has tons of data on the radar profile of this aircraft. Thus defeating the purpose of the whole stealth thing. This is why we wouldn’t sell it to turkey, since they use the russian s300 SAM system, which comes equipped with, you guessed it, radar. And the s300 also comes with a bonus of russian maintenance men.
We should buy J20s instead