F-35-Programm mit den springenden Kosten, Pilotmangel und Infrastrukturdefizit: AG-Bericht | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/f-35-fighter0-jets-arrive-can-contractor-1.7556943
F-35-Programm mit den springenden Kosten, Pilotmangel und Infrastrukturdefizit: AG-Bericht | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/f-35-fighter0-jets-arrive-can-contractor-1.7556943
5 Kommentare
Carney committed to 2% military spending by march. The money is there, now just cut down on waste. Lets fix decades of neglect.
So like more than $300M per jet. I can’t imagine that’s very sustainable. If Canada (and the west in general) wants to truly be able to defend itself, it needs to stop paying such monstrous amounts for military equipment.
It would be helpful if someone could break down how many of these costs are F-35 specific and how many are just the costs of things you would need for any new fighter jet program.
The G&M coverage seemed to suggest that a lot of this was weapons and ground facilities
Aside from the cost, there is also the issue that we will get locked in with US hardware and software, the latter having a longer term impact. That’s not something viable with what the US is evolving into.
Is the Gripen still off the table? For this kind of price we could be producing fighters domestically like SAAB offered to do in their original bid. Roughly the same purchase cost per plane as the F-35 but significantly cheaper to fly and would be an incredible boost to Canada’s aerospace industry.
It’s not unreasonable to fly both jets if we have the entire logistics, parts and manufacturing supply chain for one of them. Two blocks of 16 F-35’s to keep up with our NATO obligations and cover until we spin up manufacturing for the Gripen. Gripen would do the bulk of patrol work around Canada and the Arctic for 1/4 the cost per flight hour of the F-35 and give more flexibility with it being designed for austere runways. Then we have the flexibility to extend production of the Gripen past 32 airframes as needed without relying on politics down south.