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

[Czech_pivo]

Bombardier partners with BAE Systems to explore combat fighter jets

The companies have signed a strategic agreement to explore developing industrial and technology capabilities

www.theglobeandmail.com

Excerpt:
Plane maker Bombardier Inc.

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is partnering with British defence contractor BAE Systems
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on a new effort to develop technological and industrial capabilities for future combat fighter jets.

The companies signed a memorandum of understanding to explore opportunities to collaborate across several key areas, including research and development, systems integration, and work force and supply chains, they said in separate statements Wednesday.

Bombardier chief executive Éric Martel is pushing to expand its defence business as countries around the world boost their military spending. The unit blew past its original US$1-billion revenue target five years ahead of its 2030 target.

Sounds alot like angling for GCAP work down the line, no?

 

[FJAG]

 

[The Bread Guy]

Still "reviewing"?

Canada still reviewing F-35 purchase after RCAF received its first jets: minister

Defence Minister David McGuinty says the federal government’s planned purchase of 88 F-35 stealth fighters remains under review, even after the military received its first two F-35s in recent days.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[ArmyRick]

Still "reviewing"?

Canada still reviewing F-35 purchase after RCAF received its first jets: minister

Defence Minister David McGuinty says the federal government’s planned purchase of 88 F-35 stealth fighters remains under review, even after the military received its first two F-35s in recent days.

www.ctvnews.ca

Reviewing = Seeing if they drop in the polls if they continue with the F35 purchase (which is what they fully intend to do).

 

[Halifax Tar]

Reviewing = Seeing if they drop in the polls if they continue with the F35 purchase (which is what they fully intend to do).

Everything is about keeping them in power. The betterment of Canada is secondary, IMHO.

 

[ArmyRick]

Everything is about keeping them in power. The betterment of Canada is secondary, IMHO.

The truth. Promise everything and make excuses for the failures. Results? Whatever.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Listening to talk radio about the purchase, they identified that we did get two and we ordered 14, the information learned here about a further 16 was not mentioned.

 

[markppcli]

Listening to talk radio about the purchase, they identified that we did get two and we ordered 14, the information learned here about a further 16 was not mentioned.

They'll wait for a win to announce it. If they can swing a trade deal because f35 thing id see it.

 

[DBNSG]

Everything is about keeping them in power. The betterment of Canada is secondary, IMHO

That raises the question then what Party would soft Liberal CAF haters vote for ? Avi Lewis? not vote?
If Karma took Trump this weekend I imagine the Gripen crowd would find something else to focus on that did not include
DND and the celebration would last a week.

 

[captloadie]

What if we put the fighter jet argument in this context:
CF-35: peacetime aircraft we can use for NORAD and limited international conflicts where the risk to losing one is acceptable. They are expensive to replace, expensive to maintain, and more complex to learn to fly to maximize its capabilities
SAAB Gripen: the wartime aircraft that can be replaced at the speed they are lost in combat. Cheaper and quicker to build, maintain, and train pilots on

So where do we see Canada in future conflicts?