> My discussions with retired RCAF generals tend to end on the same plaintive note: if we don’t buy the F-35, we won’t have an air force anymore. This is, of course, absurd. Many countries don’t have F-35s and have perfectly good (and quite lethal) air forces. The countries include France and Sweden, two allies who have eschewed the F-35 in favour of their own aircraft.
Lmao. “Please ignore the fact that France and Sweden have domestic aerospace industries and didn’t fuck around on fighter jet procurement for over a decade letting their entire fleet that was supposed to be phasing into retirement by now slowly decay. If you don’t ignore that I can’t pretend my ignorance is better than the knowledge of my country’s generals.”
We don’t need remote kill switches in our military, plain and simple.
Especially if they are from the United States, given the fact that they could disable f16’s in Ukraine while fighting against Russia at any time, signals that they can do that to Canada as well.
Edit: It was f16’s not f35’s I fixed my comment
The F35 run circles around everything. As much hate as they get for being imperfect or expensive, it’s how you win wars. No one on Reddit is going to accept this and I’ll get downvoted a lot for saying it, but F35 dominates.
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> My discussions with retired RCAF generals tend to end on the same plaintive note: if we don’t buy the F-35, we won’t have an air force anymore. This is, of course, absurd. Many countries don’t have F-35s and have perfectly good (and quite lethal) air forces. The countries include France and Sweden, two allies who have eschewed the F-35 in favour of their own aircraft.
Lmao. “Please ignore the fact that France and Sweden have domestic aerospace industries and didn’t fuck around on fighter jet procurement for over a decade letting their entire fleet that was supposed to be phasing into retirement by now slowly decay. If you don’t ignore that I can’t pretend my ignorance is better than the knowledge of my country’s generals.”
We don’t need remote kill switches in our military, plain and simple.
Especially if they are from the United States, given the fact that they could disable f16’s in Ukraine while fighting against Russia at any time, signals that they can do that to Canada as well.
Edit: It was f16’s not f35’s I fixed my comment
The F35 run circles around everything. As much hate as they get for being imperfect or expensive, it’s how you win wars. No one on Reddit is going to accept this and I’ll get downvoted a lot for saying it, but F35 dominates.
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