[Newsbot]

Title: F-35 comes up short
Category: Military
Posted By: Robair
Date: 2015-08-11 14:27:39
Canadian

[Robair]

Surprised?

Didn't think so.

[xerxes]

The only surprise is that the RCAF is still considering buying it.

[Jabberwalker]

Flying Turkey, apparently. Peter McKay learned how to purchase aircraft from Brian Mulroney.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

I've said time and time again, we should buy the Super Hornet. No extensive training required, we can get more of them, and they have two engines.

-J.

[PluggyRug]

It looks like they found some old Howard Hughes plans to base the design on.

[BartSimpson]

Newsbot Newsbot:

Title: F-35 comes up short
Category: Military
Posted By: Robair
Date: 2015-08-11 14:27:39
Canadian

Told you so.

[Jabberwalker]

They keep saying that the Americans don't export the Super Hornet but since we share the air defence of our homelands through NORAD, surely an exception can be made.

[sandorski]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

They keep saying that the Americans don't export the Super Hornet but since we share the air defence of our homelands through NORAD, surely an exception can be made.

Australia has them.

[Jabberwalker]

The Australians have some problems common to both of our countries, such as huge air spaces to patrol. No Eurofighters in places where to have to fly 2500 miles just to get to your battle zone.

[llama66]

It's time for...

[Jabberwalker]

If you can't get a supposedly "pro military" government to build a couple of oilers for the Navy, despite a ten year lead up to not having any, you sure as hell are not going to see a Canadian designed jet fighter.

Besides, the "fix" was in, in the form of a single source selection process with no tenders bid. That sure smells awfully bad.

Airbus.

Bags of cash.

[herbie]

Like everything else, buy them from China.
We'd have to flash the avionics and get QNX/Blackberry to rework it all to be safe...

[xerxes]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

They keep saying that the Americans don't export the Super Hornet but since we share the air defence of our homelands through NORAD, surely an exception can be made.

This is purely conspiratorial on my part, but it seems almost as though there's some behind the scenes arm-twisting, like there was with the whole Avro Arrow fiasco.

It would explain why the was only the lack of competing bids.

[Thanos]

xerxes xerxes:

This is purely conspiratorial on my part, but it seems almost as though there's some behind the scenes arm-twisting, like there was with the whole Avro Arrow fiasco.

It would explain why the was only the lack of competing bids.

Less sinister than Lockheed is turning into a giga-corporation and is achieving monopoly status as an aircraft contractor. We would have had to buy from the Europeans to avoid the trap Lockheed set with the F-35.