Prime Minister Carney orders review of F-35 fighter jet purchase from U.S.’s Lockheed Martin
Carney orders review of F-35 fighter jet purchase from U.S.’s Lockheed Martin
Prime Minister Carney orders review of F-35 fighter jet purchase from U.S.’s Lockheed Martin
Carney orders review of F-35 fighter jet purchase from U.S.’s Lockheed Martin
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Would be staggeringly stupid to buy military hardware from a hostile nation.
At this point buying F35 wouldn’t be much better than buying Chinese jets.
And, e.g. the French do have fine alternatives
Finally some common sense.
Yes! I was waiting for this. Cheaper, better alternatives elsewhere that are not made in a hostile nation.
No more dependence on US should also do this with all the overpriced military equipments and intelligence services that the US provides
Smart move. And it hits the US in the pocket.
Buying US arms is tantamount in saying we will only fight in US approved imterests.
Think our military needs a wake up calll.
I’m all in on increasing our budgets I would even support mandatory conscription.ill sign up at an elderly age if called upon.
But this will not help our military from regaining our foothold and standing on OUR own 2 feet.
I can sympathize with the brotherly affection our troops likely have formed with the US.
That aside this is more than who our men and women prefer to play with and more about who they are sworn to protect.
If I’m not mistaken Canada creates some of the parts for the jet so they have skin in the game.
A completely rational move by Carney.
More countries should follow suit.
Buying something from a hostile nation is equal to surrender.
How long before the old money behind Lockheed Martin and the rest of the military industrial complex decide the current administration is lacking.
The US defense export industry is toast right now: Trump managed to do this in just 7 weeks!
Eurofighter
Do it, show the Americans that their bullshit has real consequences.
Let’s get Gripens or Rafales
Scrape it, take a restock fee and dump the money into a drone development partnership with Ukraine..
Excellent! I really hope that if we pull the plug on the F35, that they find one that will allow us to tool and manufacture in Canada.
President vs MIC. Interesting.
The US is becoming weaker and weaker. We are no longer a reliable trading partner, nor can we be trusted for security. Trump’s demands are pushing countries away from us. While Trump blusters and bullies and expects other countries to crawl back to him to beg they are refusing American made military jets, creating their own versions of Lockheed Martin and increasing their militaries. They have more self respect than we do, I guess.
As I understand it, Canada has already paid for the first batch of 16 aircraft. Politically, cancelling the rest of the order is the right thing to do. Sends a message to the current US administration, and it might kick start LM and the rest of the military-industrial complex in the US to get off their ass and do something about Trump.
From a practical standpoint, we’d still have to pay the full cost of training pilots, maintainers, etc. and we’d have to pay penalties to cancel the rest of the order. We’d also end up with a mixed fleet unless we could sell the first 16 to someone else (which would require US approval).
Build some armed ice breakers.
The loss of trust is irrevocable…there’s no sane or commercial reason for trump to do what he’s doing if he was not invested in destroying the alliance…hes now playing on plausible deniability till his handlers get what they want, and his handlers are in a hurry this second term….
Gripen all the way!
This is such good news!! I always thought one of the benefits of the F35 is letting us synchronize with our closest ally. Both countries want a solid defence in the north so it just made sense to me. It’s pretty sad I just don’t believe that anymore.
Canada could become a part of the new European militär industrial complex. Win win.
Trump is doing more for the Swedish and French aerospace industry than he is for Lockheed.
I was wondering if I was going to like this new guy. I kinda like the cut of his job so far.
This review needed to happen. These jets are too connected. They are like sky Teslas. I would imagine there are a few backdoors to limit features unless tithing is paid.
The defense industry is going to lose billions in contracts with the pull out from Ukraine. People that work at those companies who voted for Trump will never realize that the majority of the money ear marked for Ukraine was going back into the US to replace equipment sent over to them. Now, lose billions in F35s as more and more countries will back out. That fighter is amazing with a close colation of countries working together.
This is the 3rd country now. I saw one estimate of cost to be 80-100 million each.
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