The F-35 is a poison pill for Canadian defence sovereignty against a hostile America. We cannot win against an invasion, but with the Gripen we can make it a phyrric victory for them.
The F-35 is a poison pill for Canadian defence sovereignty against a hostile America. We cannot win against an invasion, but with the Gripen we can make it a phyrric victory for them.
I would actually say go ahead with the limited purchase. Then use the F-35 as aggressor aircraft in training that way we know how to fight them.
Doesn’t the US hold some software keys?
I know what he’s talking about: not against American pilots, but as make-believe American pilots.
Which is a good idea, but not perfect: American pilots will have noticeably different behaviours and tactics, and even personality types that are (generally) not found up here. While training against other Canadians in an F-35 is great, it’s not as good as training against Americans in an F-35.
But that’s the trick - how do we get America, using F-35 aircraft, to help us to train up our Gripen pilots?
And when our original order of 88 or so F-35 planes could, if completely cancelled and on a per-dollar basis, buy 420 Gripens straight from Europe, how do we get America to unknowingly train up so many Gripen pilots?
No, I mean I think the US can remote disable the plane
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No.
I’m not sure that’s a confirmed thing but Trump did make the threat last year, so 🤷
They aren’t proving they can’t because they refuse to give us the code. We have to assume they can.