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It's funny, most people in the rest of the world don't even think Canada has a military. What do the Mounties need with F18s? I am sure the Eurofighter consort

• kogepathic 9y ago
  > I am sure the Eurofighter consortium would be happy to take an order for some Typhoons tho'... Sweden has a Gripen I'm sure they would love to sell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
• rconti 9y ago
  It seems like it would be an insanely huge task to start doing military contracts with a new supplier, get new parts, train servicemembers how to maintain the new planes, and deal with countless pieces of support equipment and infrastructure and software designed for one plane. Then again, I really have no idea -- perhaps there are so few commonalities between an F/A-18 and an F-35 that it's just as easy to switch to another vendor.
  • gaius 9y ago
    There are barely any commonalities between F35 variants despite what was promised, it's another debacle of that programme.