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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With tariffs hammering F-35 sales, I expect the next Eurofighter project will have a lot more resources. I wonder if Canada will get involved.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sweden also offered to get us building our own Gripens totally locally. The page for the bid is even still up

I assume we already have pilots trained in flying the F-35 at this point, which sucks if we're never getting them, though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This would be amazing for us to bring back military building here in Canada!!

[–] HellsBelle 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Especially since the Americans are the ones who convinced us they had enough fighter jets to take care of us so we could/should cancel the Arrow. :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, there was also the issue of it just costing a lot as the Diefenbaker conservative government was looking to make cuts.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Absolute bozo move to not go for this in retrospect. They need to give this a look again asap

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If I had hair, I definitely would have been pulling it out at the time. It's not like this situation came out of nowhere, but normalcy bias won the day.