Comment 76582

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted May 07, 2012 at 23:15:08

I'm really impressed at how little of the American F-35 scandal has bled over into Canada. They're calling it a "flying piano" and "the jet that ate the Pentagon". The F-22, for it's part, is in the middle of a scandal for causing hypoxia during manoeuvres.

One might ask why our country needs so many "cutting-edge" fighter jets? When was the last time we went to war with a country who had an air force to speak of? Iraq? Libya? Afghanistan? All three might have had trouble matching planes with Hamilton's Warplane Heritage Museum. Who are we expecting to go to war with for which CF-18s wouldn't be "enough"? The F-35 and others like it are designed for fighting advanced industrial nations - generally those more than able to simply develop their own supersonic stealth fighters in response (some already have). All this accomplishes is escalating an arms-race and dumping the last generation of military hardware out to despots in the developing world.

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