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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
| Winnipegger |
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:41 pm
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martin14 wrote: Winnipegger wrote: Ps. Thank you for staying on topic. Hey, you opened the door with your idiotic post. All we did was show you the error of your ways. 
Are you under 12 years old? |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
| Winnipegger |
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:11 am
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| The Strike Eagle didn't show up until the late 80's or 90's. The original Eagle (A and C models) was air to air only. That could be one more bidder. The point is we need a competitive bid, not just select the F-35 because the Americans want to sell it. Moot point, Canada doesn't employ the HARM mis... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:40 pm
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| The point of this discussion was that the F-35 is not the right fighter jet for Canada. For one thing if you want a stealth fighter, the first mission of any stealth aircraft is to take out your opponents anti-aircraft defences. Since we still buy most of our ordinance from the US, the American miss... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
| Winnipegger |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:28 pm
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| Second, Ukrainian script is different from Russian, they are different languages. Third, I have my doubts over the willingness of these people to engage Russia in any way. If they have, they have obviously forgotten all of their history. Btw, which Russian invasion were you referring to ? 1790's 19... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:08 pm
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| The Typhoon, and Rafale are not even in the same league as the F35, they lack stealth capabilities. True stealth jets have no afterburners and won't break the sound barrier, hence the term STEALTH aircraft. This is why the Chinese and Russian jets are NOT true stealth fighters. Why pay 60 million f... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:57 pm
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| I can see neither Geography nor History are your strong points. To begin with, Minsk is the capital of Belorussia(Belarus), and is not a Russian city...technically. Secondly it was Murmansk and Archangel which were the main Russian ports that the allies used to supply the reds. Murmansk is the oran... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:58 pm
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| If they don't want to consider the Su-35, they won't consider a plane from India. The Soviet Union was our opponent during the cold war. India is a Commonwealth country. However, you're probably right, they won't consider a plane from India. So you'll forgive India for throwing off the shackles of ... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:36 pm
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DanSC wrote: If they don't want to consider the Su-35, they won't consider a plane from India.
The Soviet Union was our opponent during the cold war. India is a Commonwealth country. However, you're probably right, they won't consider a plane from India. |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:44 pm
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| The 3 European planes I listed are all built by NATO allies. In fact, the Typhoon is built by the UK, Germany, and Spain. Canada is still a Commonwealth country, so we should definately consider a British plane. However, if you like the F-16 then I have to point out the YF-16 was originally develope... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:39 pm
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| Any European fighter is not an option. Retooling and re-equipping everyday fasteners alone would be a nightmare and add to the cost. Retooling and re-equipping is required for any new fighter, including the F-35. Nope they use metric wrenches and fasteners with a different thread pitch than ours. C... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:28 pm
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| Any European fighter is not an option. Retooling and re-equipping everyday fasteners alone would be a nightmare and add to the cost. Retooling and re-equipping is required for any new fighter, including the F-35. The only plane that can use tools from our CF-18 Hornet, is the SuperHornet. By the wa... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada: You need to start over on fighter jets |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:10 am
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| http://chapters.marssociety.org/winnipeg/private/fighters.gif There are 3 European fighter jets available to us; all built by NATO allies, all less expensive than the F-35, and all perform BETTER. When Russia flew their first test flight of the prototype Tu-95 Bear bomber in 1952, t... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: How to balance the budget |
| Winnipegger |
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:00 pm
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| It's not much and more symbolic than anything, but every penny counts, so how about MPs and senators get a wage/perk roll back and have their pensions adjusted to reflect the average Canadians. They are the peoples' employees, and in what other job are employees allowed to give themselves a raise w... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Treat debt as a mortgage, once gone abolish income tax |
| Winnipegger |
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:53 pm
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| No, I said he would have paid the debt down to the level it was when the Liberal government was elected in 1993. Not the whole debt, just pay off the debt incurred during the Liberal years. The deficit was killed so quickly that there wasn't much debt to start with, and had been paid down so rapidly... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Treat debt as a mortgage, once gone abolish income tax |
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:23 pm
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| don't you think the market crash in that happened in October 2008 had any impact on the Federal revenues for the 2008/2009 year? Of course it did. But if we started with around $17 billion surplus, we would have had a smaller surplus that year rather than a deficit. Stimulus spending in subsequent ... |
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