The F-35 “Lightning II” is a ‘5th generation’ fighter. It has capabilities that will theoretically allow Canadian air power to counter and defeat all potential threats for a period of decades while reducing attrition and sustainment requirements. (A set of briefing slides entitled “Canada’s Next Generation Fighter Capability” can be […]
F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter
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Moderator’s Note: This material is provided by . It is from a document entitled Here For Canada, which is available at this URL: http://www.conservative.ca/media/ConservativePlatform2011_ENs.pdf (Beginning at page 16) PROMOTE CANADA’S WORLD-CLASS AEROSPACE INDUSTRY Canada’s export-oriented aerospace industry – the fifth largest in the world – employs more than 80,000 Canadians […]
Moderator’s Note: This material is provided by . It is from a document entitled Your Family. Your Future. Your Canada., which is available at this URL: http://cdn.liberal.ca/files/2011/04/liberal_platform.pdf The Modern Canadian Military The Canadian Forces do extraordinary work around the world, as well as defending our security and sovereignty at home, […]
Moderator’s Note: This material is from a document entitled Practical First Steps For Leadership On The World Stage, which is available at this URL: http://www.ndp.ca/platform/leadership-on-world-stage] Item 6.4 - Charting a New Course for Canada’s Defence We will give the men and women of the Canadian Forces, who put their lives on […]
Social commentary around the F-35 issue is in general acceptance that they are needed, based almost exclusively on the age of the F-18s. There is an interesting comment in the paper today about the CF-18s in Libya (The Globe and Mail, “NATO split threatens Libyan effort”). Seems that the CF-18s […]
I’ve found this series of exchanges VERY helpful, and many, many thanks to Hugh [Williamson] for collecting and distributing the party platform materials in such accessible form. [Moderator’s Note: These documents will be posted shortly.] I have nothing to contribute to the discussion on the technical side, although I confess […]
In response to Anne Griffith’s comment about the F-35 brief, I was at the same briefing and was similarly unimpressed. It was very much a “glossy brochure” type of brief - very shiny but very much lacking any convincing argument. One thing that bothers me is the lack of any real […]
I am certainly not an expert on the joint strike fighter, so I can’t comment on the technical merits of the purchase. I would, however, like to comment on the purchase and the sales job that the government and DND are making on the plane. I went to a briefing […]
Brian Stewart, Senior Fellow with the Monk Centre at the University of Toronto, has raised the spectre of an internal struggle within DND over how to allocate the capital portion of the defence budget. In his article entitled “$30B fighter jets just the start of defence-spending boom” (CBC News, 06 […]
First, I think Dan/Eric's arguments that the government will force the air force to live within its budget on this buy have already been given some support. When we signed the 2006 Production, Sustainment, and Follow-on Development Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the F-35, we did so on the assumption […]