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    F-35 werden zur Verteidigung Nordamerikas nicht benötigt, sagt US-General


    F-35 werden zur Verteidigung Nordamerikas nicht benötigt, sagt US-General

    https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/norad-f-35-figher-jet-north-america

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    1. ph0enix1211 on

      >Canadian military leaders are extremely close to their U.S. counterparts and they see the F-35 as pivotal in further integrating the two forces.

      The RCAF wants to have the toy as their buddies.

      Beyond this, it’s important that the government have a role in the decision to consider supply chain risk, strategic defense industrial capability, and other factors the RCAF don’t seem to consider.

    2. Gimedecash on

      Let’s just get a mixed fleet. We can sign the deal to produce our own grippens and still buy F35 when we need more.

    3. MTL_Dude666 on

      „The NORAD commander said fifth-generation jets, considered the most advanced type of aircraft, have a role to play in attacking overseas targets. “Those capabilities are better used overseas where their stealth, air to ground weapons and penetration capability are needed,”“

      „“Canada has been flying different aircraft from the USAF in NORAD for 40+ years and controls its jets through Winnipeg, and the F-35’s stealth is irrelevant in NORAD because Russian bombers do not have air-to-air radar,” wrote Sweetman, author of Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: How the F-35 Hollowed Out the U.S. Air Force.“

      That’s what we keep telling F-35 proponents! We’re NOT primarily purchasing jet fighters as an offensive force, but as a defensive one.

    4. Justin_123456 on

      This was always obvious to everyone involved. The F35 was designed to carry out the suppression/destruction of enemy air defence mission, against Russian S-400 batteries, not patrol the high Arctic against airspace intrusions.

      The ability to defeat enemy air defence is worthwhile capability to have, but then you need to have an honest conversation with Canadians about it.

      It’s like saying you need to buy a new two seater sports car to take the kids to hockey practice. Sure you could, I guess, but it would be expensive and suboptimal in every way, and that’s probably not the real reason you want a new sports car.

    5. AdmiralAsshat69 on

      At this point, we have to be insane to buy American tech, no matter how good or bad it is.

      We just saw the US steal their own weapons slated for Ukraine and Europe so they could send them to the Middle East.

      They are unable to manufacture weapons at scale to maintain their own conflicts, never mind ours. When this war ends, probably in an American defeat, the US will be in a shambles. They might not be able to make any more of these, at least not in a timely manner.

      I would remind everyone that we have not yet received the F35s we have already purchased. They’re supposed to come in 2028. Who knows where America will be. They might be in year three of their two-week campaign by that point.

      Ie, even if we decide this is the best plane, and that this is how we want to go forward, and we *actually pay for them*, they may still not deliver them – or they might steal them – or they might deliver them so late they’ll be even more obsolete than they probably already are.

      Not saying the Gripen is the answer but if we decide we want a fighter fleet and we allocate the money for them, we need to ensure these planes actually exist.

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