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Canada Buys New F-18s After Canceling Its Order for the F-35
The Great White North selects the F/A-18 Super Hornet as an interim fighter jet (www.popularmechanics.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
20 years + and the F35 can't carry all our bombs, the gun hasn't been tested, and our enemies are ready for it... reminds me of the late 50s and early 60s when the Air Force genius's decided our fighters didn't need guns anymore... then Vietnam.. Sparrows Falcons didn't work well... and hence the vulcan equipped F4Es... Hope the new administration fires everyone in procurement and brings back Skunkworks Kelly Johnson... oh yeah damn! he passed away
My understanding is they are leasing not buying the planes from boeing...
Canuck 44 has it about right. Trying to make 3 versions of the same aircraft hasn't worked. The Hornet has been good for us an topping them up with the super Hornet is wise. His comments about the rest of our military are right on. As usual however the rednecks still make their inane comments on issues that have nothing to do with politics. What have Hilary and Obama got to do with Canada buying the super Hornet? Too bad the preacher is no longer with us; he made knowledgeable comments on issues and kept politics out of it.
YES YES YES ....The HORNET stays in the CANADIAN NEST !!!!..F-35 PHOOEY !!
Good call by the Canadian government for ordering new F-18's instead of the chronically over budget, behind schedule, unreliable, unproven, technological nightmare, pig in a poke F-35.
Here, in the U.S., it is a project in which so many billions of dollars have been invested that it is now deemed too big to allow to fail.
Here, in the U.S., it is a project in which so many billions of dollars have been invested that it is now deemed too big to allow to fail.
And did anyone notice ...the Saudis and other middle east countries are buying F-15s .
Why not buy capable fighters in quantity instead of a few boutique fighters with questionable technology that could be overwhelmed by numbers
Why not buy capable fighters in quantity instead of a few boutique fighters with questionable technology that could be overwhelmed by numbers