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Canada Considers Snubbing US F-35 For Sweden’s Gripen Fighter Jets
(www.newsweek.com)
Euro canards my beloved
Wasn't a major problem with the F35 that they can't fly in the Canadian north? Shouldn't we have at least some of our fleet that can be used throughout Canadian territory in our defense?
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Damn that's a sexy plane. Delta wing and canards? Hell yeah.
You do realize that the Gripen Fighter Jet uses General Electric Engines ... USA still has control over Sweden's Gripen Fighter Jets ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
they were originally made in sweden on license by volvo aerospace. now that's part of bae systems, but the entire thing is modular and if worse comes to worst, the drawings are probably still around.
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The Gripen is quite interesting, who would have guessed that licensing fighter jets for manufacturing on other countries (Embraer is building them too, Colombia bought some, other countries seem to want it too) would be a good strategy?
I'll wait 50 years for a Gripen to be sold on Aliexpress for 150 thousand dollars, 250 thousand with replacement parts with a cool paint job.
List of accidents and incidents involving the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
At the price of $100M/jet you want to miss out on all this?
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I hope they do it. Maybe the arms manufacturers will turn on Trump when they start losing trillion dollar clients.
If we MUST get the jets from the US perhaps they'd consider a trade of some fighter jets for deez nutz
What's to consider. Do we need to hire an american consultant? (Canada's "go to" action in the past). Also, let's get those decisions made on the Chinese EV's and get that Canola flowing. Win-win for all Canadians. We can't be politicking all the time, can we? Pull up those sleeves, put away the middle-school insults, join hands, and get the hell to work!
Militarily procurement has always been massively corrupt in Canada.
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Yes. We don’t want the fascist us F35’s keep them and stick em where the sun don’t shine.
If you want to make America piss itself, station J-35S.
Or you know stop building up your planet destroying unnecessary military altogether.
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