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Re: Fighter Jets
Canada to buy more used Australian fighter jets - number goes from 18 to 25
DAVID PUGLIESE, OTTAWA CITIZEN ---June 15, 2018
DAVID PUGLIESE, OTTAWA CITIZEN ---June 15, 2018
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Federal auditor general to dive into contentious fighter-jet 'capability gap'
July 26, 2018
July 26, 2018
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Auditor's F35 lightning to strike twice — and this time the Liberals may get burned
JOHN IVISON - July 27, 2018
JOHN IVISON - July 27, 2018
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Conservatives say Canadian Armed Forces getting substandard equipment
By posted by: Rattan Mall - September 26, 2018
By posted by: Rattan Mall - September 26, 2018
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Canada's fighter jet debacle: This is no way to run a military
National Post
David Krayden
October 3, 2018
National Post
David Krayden
October 3, 2018
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Fighter Jets?
November 11, 2018
F-35 vs. the Rest: Which Of These 5 Planes Will Be Canada's New Fighter Jet?
F-35 vs. the Rest: Which Of These 5 Planes Will Be Canada's New Fighter Jet?
T he Canadian government just released a draft tender seeking information from five companies who will compete for the eighty-eight-jet, $26 billion (USD $20 billion) order. The contenders will likely be the Eurofighter Typhoon, France’s Dassault Rafale, Sweden’s Saab Gripen, and for the United States, Boeing’s F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet and Lockheed Martin’s F-35. The actual bidding is supposed to begin in May 2019, with the aircraft entering service in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) by the mid-2020s.
How to replace Canada’s thirty-five-year-old CF-18s—the Canadian version of the U.S. F/A-18 Hornet—has been a political hot potato juggled between Canada’s political parties, as well as the Trump administration and Canada.
The twists and turns in the saga include Canada nixing a proposed buy of Super Hornet last year after the Trump administration imposed tariffs on Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier. Ottawa now plans to buy twenty-five used F/A-18 Hornets from Australia as a stopgap until a brand-new fighter jet is selected. At the same time, Canada ponied up another C$54 million (US$41 million) to remain a member of the international F-35 consortium, to which Canada has contributed a half-billion dollars over the past twenty years.
As if that wasn’t enough, the current Liberal party government just changed the bidding requirements , put out by the previous Conservative party government and thought to favor the F-35, in favor of new requirements that will make it easier for European companies to win the fighter contract.
The issue “has become extremely politicized as the current government tries to find ways to meet its election campaign promises of holding an open and transparent competition but not buying the F-35,” David Stone, a defense expert at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, told the National Interest. “They now realize that they cannot actually exclude the F-35 if they are to hold an open and transparent competition.”
Stone sees the Canadian government having to grapple with two issues. One involves offsets, or how much the winning aircraft manufacturer will invest in Canada. “This will be complicated on the government side because the MOU [memorandum of understanding] for belonging to the F-35 Consortium indicates nations agree that there will be no offsets. Should the government choose the F-35, it must be able to have a narrative that indicates it is getting more benefit from the opportunity to be part of the supply chain for all F-35s, versus getting benefits for just 88 [Canadian] planes. Should government choose a different aircraft, they will need to have a narrative to deal with the loss of business opportunity to all of those industries now part of the F-35 development supply chain.”
Then there is the fact that 2019 is an election year that will inevitably make the fighter competition a political issue. “It is further complicated for Canadians because former Canadian Forces officers are indicating their support or not for the F-35 on issues like a single engine, interoperability, etc.,” Stone says. “For example, the test pilots for the F-35 and the Super Hornet are both past F-18 Squadron Commanders in the RCAF.”
Missing from all the politicking and economics is a discussion over which aircraft is actually better for Canada, which preferred the original CF-18 in part because it had two engines rather than single-engine planes such as the F-15, F-16 and French Mirage F-1 (the F-35 also has one engine). One consideration is that the RCAF has to patrol and protect a vast swathe of Arctic territory, a region rich in mineral resources and shipping routes that are coveted by multiple nations, including Russia and the United States.
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Auditor general takes aim at Liberals' fighter-jet plan with new probe
The Canadian Press
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
The Canadian Press
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
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Air force getting more planes but won't have pilots, auditor warns
Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, November 20, 2018
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Conservatives claim Liberals ‘invented’ gap in capabilities of Canadian Armed Forces
November 20 2018
November 20 2018
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Canadian Forces spending $500M on fighter jets but won’t have anyone to fly them, auditor warns
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November 20, 2018
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Liberals press ahead with used Australian jets amid questions over who will fly them
Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, November 20, 2018
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Re: Fighter Jets
Not a good Idea to be buying used fighter jets. Not enough pilots? Meanwhile the head of our military says we need more generals. Liberals are not doing a good job in the defence file. They are slowly degrading our military whereas it is becoming more clear to other NATO members. The future of our military at this point is not looking good. Too many decision makers if you ask me. Hire more generals to add fuel to the fire.
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What's in store for the future of Canada's Air Force?
Nov 20, 2018
Nov 20, 2018
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Roy Green: Australia’s old jets are not Canada’s first experience with military cast-offs
November 22, 2018
November 22, 2018
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Letters to the Editor
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November 24, 2018
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November 24, 2018
CHEAPING OUT AGAIN
Re: Canada’s auditor general report on purchase of Australia’s used F18s. Our Canadian Government, led by the coward Trudeau, has let our country’s real heroes, the Canadian Armed Forces, down again. In true cowardly fashion, the Liberal Party has chosen to equip our military with garbage being shed by other countries. The Liberals purchased Great Britain’s nuclear subs that were mothballed and had to be literally towed across the North Atlantic and now, instead of purchasing state-of-the-art fighter planes from our neighbours and allies (protectors), Trudeau feels our forces are not worth the best planes available. Our military deserves the best equipment to help with the preservation of real freedom. Trudeau is a weak, pathetic representation of any proud Canadian who has fought to protect the rights of true Canadians and freedom around the world.
R.G. GRASLEY
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