Canada evaluates a mixed fighter fleet proposal to reduce its 88 F-35A order to 30 jets and acquire 60 Saab Gripen E fighters for domestic production.
    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      F35s are lemons, they have been delayed for years on software issues and even the US Navy rejected them because they did not meet contract specifications.

      If we buy these jets, it will cost us $2B a year just to park them in hangars. That’s more than we spend on all biomedical research for all diseases. This is how fucked the priorities of this country are. 88 F35s won’t make any difference to an enemy with 2,400 of them, with full control of the parts supply. They would be useless in a week.

    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      replace much of its planned 88 F-35 fleet with roughly 60 Saab Gripen fighters while retaining 30 F-35As

      • RandAlThor@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I’ve been reading up on them. They are very different types of jets. Gripen is a defensive jet while F35s are built to attack, and has more advanced tech. I’m waiting to see their combat performance once they are in Ukraine. In some ways drones are going to make them obsolete soon.

  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Makes me wish that the KF-21 was ready a few years earlier. Those look like amazing jets, but if we started looking at them now we’d have to restart the whole evaluation process.