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F-35 comes up short


Military | 207337 hits | Aug 11 2:27 pm | Posted by: Robair
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A U.S. defence and foreign affairs think tank released a comprehensive report today suggesting the oft-maligned F-35 might not meet the performance standards of current fighters, including Canada's CF-18s.

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  1. by avatar Robair
    Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:08 am
    Surprised?

    Didn't think so.

  2. by avatar xerxes
    Wed Aug 12, 2015 5:30 am
    The only surprise is that the RCAF is still considering buying it.

  3. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:21 am
    Flying Turkey, apparently. Peter McKay learned how to purchase aircraft from Brian Mulroney.

  4. by avatar CDN_PATRIOT
    Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:56 am
    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.

  5. by avatar PluggyRug
    Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:59 pm
    It looks like they found some old Howard Hughes plans to base the design on.

  6. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Wed Aug 12, 2015 3:22 pm
    "Newsbot" said
    F-35 comes up short

    Posted By:
    2015-08-11 14:27:39


    Told you so. :|

  7. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:21 am
    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.

  8. by avatar sandorski
    Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:27 am
    "Jabberwalker" said
    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.

  9. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:03 am
    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.

  10. by avatar llama66
    Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:31 am
    It's time for...

  11. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Thu Aug 13, 2015 2:03 am
    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.

  12. by avatar herbie
    Thu Aug 13, 2015 2:26 am
    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...

  13. by avatar xerxes
    Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:19 am
    "Jabberwalker" said
    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.

  14. by Thanos
    Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:28 am
    "xerxes" said


    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.



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