Climate change will be good for the Yukon, the NWT, and Nunavut.
AKA the 51st-53rd states.
If the polar bears can handle it!
Climate change will be good for the Yukon, the NWT, and Nunavut.
AKA the 51st-53rd states.
at any rate the next one will not be fought in canada and will not not be influenced one way or the other by our participation.
while our need for fire fighting aircraft will only increase
we will devote billions to fighters that are of no use to any one and next to nothing to water and chemical bombers that would be of immense tangible benefit to canadians.
because our political system is broken and cannot be fixed
This would be the first single engine jet fighter for the RCAF since the Vampires in the late 1940s. Twin engine is an old and very sensible spec. for an air force that has to operate between the 42nd parallel and the North Pole. (Are the Americans patrolling their vast Alaskan airspace with single engine F-35s? Of course not. That would be silly.) This plane doesn't meet even the basic RCAF spec. of a twin engine aircraft that they've had for two thirds of a century and it should NEVER have been on the list, at all. Peter McKay did it for whatever personal and political motivation that he had but it made so little sense from the beginning and the whole process does not pass the smell test.Military allows F-35 to be promoted at fighter jet base in midst of $19B competition
All the bidders should have a plane for everyone to compare, The US should allow us to have a few Raptors in our arsenal.
Canada built a fleet of 138 of them If we pull out all the stops and money is no object, we replace that with 60 hyper-sophisticated hanger queens. We'll be lucky if there are 10 working fighter planes at any given moment in the whole country, considering the constant tinkering that will have to be done on those technological marvels.they are actually priced about right for what they are.
f18s were costed in at about $30 million each back in the day. the math there is roughly correct
This would be the first single engine jet fighter for the RCAF since the Vampires in the late 1940s. Twin engine is an old and very sensible spec. for an air force that has to operate between the 42nd parallel and the North Pole. (Are the Americans patrolling their vast Alaskan airspace with single engine F-35s? Of course not. That would be silly.) This plane doesn't meet even the basic RCAF spec. of a twin engine aircraft that they've had for two thirds of a century and it should NEVER have been on the list, at all. Peter McKay did it for whatever personal and political motivation that he had but it made so little sense from the beginning and the whole process does not pass the smell test.
This is totally the wrong aircraft for this country, unless we get back into the business of operating carriers again and there is rather slight chance of that happening.
P.S., it is so bizarrely overpriced that no one will be able to buy many of them. That will seriously weaken the abilities of our alliances if we and our allies can only fly a couple of dozen aircraft per country at any given time.
What a tur k ey.
What a monumental con job, too.
The sortie time/distance for a Swedish or Norwegian fighter plane (Sweden borders Russia)is about ten minutes. In Canada, it's about 7 hours.Sweden and Norway don't seem to be to concerned over single engine fighters
That's because we turned our 570+ fighter (200 x CF-104, 240 x CF-5, 134 x CF-101 and a crap load of old CF-100s), pre F-18, into 118 fighters and we're about to turn those into 60 F-35s.Good thing we are current in our NORAD agreement, because the US will engage the enemy long before we get there, we should be looking at missile defence for the far north
Been there, done that.missile defense for the far north.
what is this? 1955?
Considering that the Raptor is, sadly, dangerous, underperforming, hideously costly, buggy to the point of insanity, and both a hangar queen and a money pit, I'm surprised Donny Dodger hasn't sold you a couple dozen.Military allows F-35 to be promoted at fighter jet base in midst of $19B competition
All the bidders should have a plane for everyone to compare, The US should allow us to have a few Raptors in our arsenal.
The Marines seem to like them. The US Navy is going "Hmmmm" and the USAF is wishing that they had built more F-22s.Considering that the Raptor is, sadly, dangerous, underperforming, hideously costly, buggy to the point of insanity, and both a hangar queen and a money pit, I'm surprised Donny Dodger hasn't sold you a couple dozen.
I hear he's got some F-52s he'd be willing to sell you. How 'bout it?
Yeah, based on the fact they don't fly them, never did, and were never planned to.The Marines seem to like them.
The U.S. Navy is, as always, going "Duhhhh." And given that you can't fly a Raptor off a carrier, that's actually sort of understandable.The US Navy is going "Hmmmm"
The AF always did have a thing for cool paperweights.and the USAF is wishing that they had built more F-22s.
I meant their F-35s ... crappy phraseology.Yeah, based on the fact they don't fly them, never did, and were never planned to.
The U.S. Navy is, as always, going "Duhhhh." And given that you can't fly a Raptor off a carrier, that's actually sort of understandable.
The AF always did have a thing for cool paperweights.
Canada built a fleet of 138 of them If we pull out all the stops and money is no object, we replace that with 60 hyper-sophisticated hanger queens. We'll be lucky if there are 10 working fighter planes at any given moment in the whole country, considering the constant tinkering that will have to be done on those technological marvels.
The Russians are not so stupid. They produce aircraft that are not quite as sexy but are tough, reliable and maintainable in rough circumstances and they are quite capable of emptying out the skies over a NATO that is armed with some dozens of those flimsy thoroughbreds.