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You've misread. Its within a year of the end of the final delivery.  Edit: I didn't write that clearly enough. My bad. There can also be extensions. No, you (along with many in the press) are conflating ISS with Production and acquisition IRBs. They are different phases and possess different...

No, its just the reality of how Canadian regulations manage offsets and their effect on the Canadian economy. Traditional offset arrangement can't match the JSF's industrial partnership program for a number of reasons. First: the relative value of "traditional offsets" are not very high...

No, they won't. Actually every single program is significantly inferior to the JSF industrial partnership program. IRBs actually are fairly poor instruments for industrial development. Much of the spending goes to industries not involved in aerospace because the contracted firm is not able to...

No I mean this: National Post, 8 Dec 12 And for all the people who said I told you so.... http://Forums.Army.ca/forums/threads/22809/post-1183151.html#msg1183151 They counted the 10% overages in this case.

Generally speaking the Government of Canada is pretty closed lipped about any foreign data. Its really a culture of protect anything just in case it might come back to bite us in the ***. Do a couple of ATIPs and the Section 13 is liberally applied. I've seen identical documents from the US and...

Okay, these two paragraphs are related. So a proper competition would have Canada develop a number of requirements, implement a rating system for them, release an RFP, the vendors submit their applications, its assessed and the decision is made.... basically the "normal process" that are...

See, I'm really just more interested in the reality of things than being a cheerleader. The problem is that the debate is so skewed right now that I'm basically seen as a one sided mouthpiece when I really dislike that role.

You mean PBO or AG? No, this was done as part of the decision to chose the fighter internally at NDHQ with other departments support. I don't know if someone has directly said somewhere the outcome of the costing, though its been implied at several junctures. The main study was completed in 2008...

DND did precisely that and it found that the F-35 was the cheapest in 2010. Nothing has changed with the program since (Costs have remained fairly stable in the past 2 years, as has orders) 

We'll see. I'd like to see KPMG's methodology and the actual numbers before making snap decisions. Frankly, I'm not sure where these figures come from, partly because it should be based on US numbers which are publicly available. All I can point to is a similar Audit conducted by the Australian...

Oh I think we're well long past the point of political liability. However I don't think its nearly as bad as people think. I think what will come out in fairly short order is that the F-35 will probably be the cheapest option available to Canada when the chips are down. I had some thought...

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Um... that already passed; it was resolved after a few weeks. The bigger question is the effects of the Fiscal Cliff and WARN orders. 

Frankly, that article is completely misleading and factually incorrect. Lets look at the Naval Air's key fighter/attack development programs for the past 25 years; ATA  -1985 - 1991 - Stealth Attack bomber (A-12. cancelled) F/A-18E - 1991~present - Interim capability to incorporate some stealth...

Two things. First, you can order an F-35 today, delivered in 2014~2015 that will only require one or two upgrades to get it to block III (operational) standard. Ones ordered in 2016 will be at the Block III standard... and you can be reasonable confident of the price an delivery day. The main...

I was in the process of editing my response. However the Dutch has said for over a year or two that they weren't going with 85, particularly since they have only 68 F-16s and feel comfortable with that level of capability. Having less F-35s was a long time coming for a variety of reasons...

The Dutch have for some time they would not have afforded 85 and signaled that it would be at most 68, maybe less. And a potential loss of 11 units spread over 5 years when over 130~150 are being produced per year isn't much of a reduction at all. Furthermore, after 2020~2022, the F-35 should...

I'm embarrassed by our media and the political debate. The level of misinformation that has been put out is staggering, which has completely misrepresented key facts in order to win political points at the expense of the Canadian Forces and the our aerospace industry.

First off I'm dubious about the LM figures, its more a positive press release and alot of their statements are "best case scenarios." I doubt they will hit $67 million in 2018. Based on the SAR and other calculations I suspect the cost point they cite will emerge 2020~2021. This assumes they...

According to the FY2013 USAF budget, they still produce the C7 for foreign customers and D model US military clients. That doesn't mean you will see the C7 go away anytime soon. F/A-18Es have been carrying AIM-7 Sparrows to balance stores over Afghanistan until recently.