The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

[Quirky]

This whole thing is lunacy. Stop playing politics and commit to the remaining F35s.

The Gripen will never take off in Canada. The only people who want are politicians, especially Joly who's hell bent on a few thousand temporary jobs for Quebec.

Huge waste of money and effort for that role, adopting an actual training aircraft like the T-7 or T-50 would make far more sense.

It's likely going to be the PC-21, like the Aussie demo team, as the facilities and heavy maintenance for the aircraft will already be in Moose Jaw with CAE/Skyline.

 

[Furniture]

The elephant in the room is still, in my opinion, the ITAR implications of the GE F414 engines.

If America went with the nuclear option, and blocked sales to their NORAD and NATO ally, it would be the end of sales to anyone who had other options.

We'd be dumb to buy the F-35 if they played that game.

 

[PuckChaser]

I'm still really confused at why we're talking about buying an aircraft that already lost a Canadian competition, and many more internationally. Then again, that is the Canadian way: substandard kit, obsolete kit.