Boeing and Trump get royally screwed

petros

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It's not a choice
 

Curious Cdn

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The key word is "used" - I'm sure that's work just fine, just like the submarines we bought "used" - how's that working out?


sigh....

Sigh is right! Most Canadians don't have even the tiniest clue about anything to do with the Canadian Navy.

Sigh.

For all you know, they're all Martians.

A McKenna writes a scathing critique of Victoria Class submarines two decades ago and every Canadian thinks that they know some thing.

Stick to something you know .... shoes, nails, celebs ...
 

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"...the Royal Canadian Air Force needing 28 to 30 used F/A-18 fighter jets to meet its international commitments."

the better solution would be to eliminate those commitments.

it is absolutely ridiculous to be dropping bombs on whoever we get told to drop bombs on.
 

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"...the Royal Canadian Air Force needing 28 to 30 used F/A-18 fighter jets to meet its international commitments."

the better solution would be to eliminate those commitments.

it is absolutely ridiculous to be dropping bombs on whoever we get told to drop bombs on.

Yeah, let's just disarm completely and hand the last vestige of our soverenty over to the Yanks.They will patrol our air space to defend themselves if we don't bother to.

Surrender monkeys.
 

petros

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The Aussie's "classic hornet" (13 years older than super hornets) airframes aren't combat capable. We are buying planes that can't do anything other than training.
 

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Yeah, let's just disarm completely and hand the last vestige of our soverenty over to the Yanks.They will patrol our air space to defend themselves if we don't bother to.

Surrender monkeys.

Yankees I am not worried about. Putin is a worry though. There is a lot of ground between the Arctic circle and the North pole that we will only hang onto if we can protect it.
 

Hoid

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

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

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.
 

petros

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Those 30 year old F18s can't carry bombs to drop.

Strafing protestors with the 50mm Vulcan cannon maybe but drop bombs that takes Super Hornets
 

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Sovereinty means that you are prepared to defend yourselves.

How was bombing Libya defending ourselves again?

Those CF18s will never defend Canada.

The same amount of money directed towards fire fighting aircraft would be a far better investment and do more to defend Canada and Canadians than fighters ever will.
 

petros

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I'm quite certain that the military doesn't need you, either.

He is the die half of "Live Free or Die".

How was bombing Libya defending ourselves again?

Those CF18s will never defend Canada.

The same amount of money directed towards fire fighting aircraft would be a far better investment and do more to defend Canada and Canadians than fighters ever will.

We used Super Hornets to bomb Libya. As I said the garbage they are considering buying from Australia are antiques with spent airframes.

They will never bomb anywhere. Not even Primrose.