Boeing and Trump get royally screwed

pgs

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What I don't understand is that Canada developed the The Avro Canada CF-105.. why can't we build our own God Dam Jets?

"We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster."
Ask C.D.Howe .

If sovereignty means we have to drop bombs on whoever we are told to drop them on then its is worthless anyway.
Neville Chamberlon anyone ?

Sovereinty means that you are prepared to defend yourselves. If you don't do it, someone else controls your foreign policy. What you expect to achieve is the direct opposite of what unilateral disarmament will achieve.
He will just call the police , they are the only ones capable of defending you .
 

Hoid

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is it possible you mean Neville Chamberlain the conservative prime minister?
 

Jinentonix

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And petros.

But morans will be morans.
Ah yes, another drive-by ad hominem and yet once again, no actual argument or debate to back it up. Typical progtard; all yap, no brains.
I can guarantee you I've forgotten a f*ckton more about a/c and the serviceable life of an airframe than you'll ever learn.
How many aircraft have you owned? How many aircraft have you flown? Do you understand the significance of LTO's?
 

mentalfloss

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Ah yes, another drive-by ad hominem and yet once again, no actual argument or debate to back it up. Typical progtard; all yap, no brains.
I can guarantee you I've forgotten a f*ckton more about a/c and the serviceable life of an airframe than you'll ever learn.
How many aircraft have you owned? How many aircraft have you flown? Do you understand the significance of LTO's?

*smooches*
 

Cannuck

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My dad's visiting. He was an analyst for air command before he retired. I read this thread to him. We laughed and laughed. He really got a kick out of Pete. I was like, "I know, right"
 

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We pumped enough money into Bombardier they should be able to design a fighter for us pay them up front and maybe they'll deliver next century :) Be better than a bunch of used junk for parts on our old junk
 

Hoid

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We pumped enough money into Bombardier they should be able to design a fighter for us pay them up front and maybe they'll deliver next century :) Be better than a bunch of used junk for parts on our old junk
because Bombardier designs fighters.
 

petros

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According to the Australian gov't they do. But you're more likely better informed than the gov't involved, so I'll leave it with you.

According to Australia they are garbage.

Corrosion complaints

Australia's defence materiel group produced a scathing report in 2012 noting that the country's FA-18s were rapidly running out of airframe life and required bigger and bigger slices of the maintenance budget.

"The incidence of discovery of airframe corrosion in the Hornet fleet is increasing, and the annual cost of corrosion‐related repairs has increased significantly," said the report, which Layton said was considered "too critical" by the defence establishment.

That was nearly 6 years ago.
 

Hoid

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They do have air-air missiles, though.
the reason I have this fellow on ignore is fake news like this - which I now only have to deal with when he gets quoted.

there is no change in the ability to attack air to ground between the legacy and the super. they use the exact same ordnance.