F35 vs. A10?

[Smitty-48]

Based Polocks FTW

This is why the Liberals keep making the payments to stay in the program.

Even tho they haven't ordered the jets.

They still want the spinoff work because everybody else will be buying Panthers in the end.

Market Dominance is Full Spectrum Dominance, King Dollah.

Hopefully Canada will be buying Panthers in the end, the longer they wait, the more the Americans will have cornered the market. Sounds fairly inevitable, even if Canada plans on being real stubborn about it.

King Dollah FTW

Ottawa doesn't oppose the Americans cornering the market because, as I say, Canada is still in the program and the Canadian companies are still getting the contracts. So long as the Americans don't insist that Canada buy the jets to keep those contracts, Ottawa will just keep on free riding. If the Americans say you have to buy the jets to keep the contracts, then Ottawa will buy.

Canada doesn't have its own MIC, Canada is part of the American MIC, Canada just likes to Free Ride.

Canada is the biggest Free Rider of them all.

[Smitty-48]

Canada is overrun with Millerist Fake Reform Hacks.

In Canada the Fake Reform Hacks get to be Defence Ministers.

The Disarmament by Stealth of Canada has been one big Fake Reform Hack festival resulting in a collapse.

In Canada, the NDP makes defence policy, the Liberals just steal that and make it their policy.

[StCapps]

So will the Americans eventually make Canada buy the jets to stay in the program, or are they content to let Canada be the Ultimate Free Rider here?

[Smitty-48]

So will the Americans eventually make Canada buy the jets to stay in the program, or are they content to let Canada be the Ultimate Free Rider here?

Washington is adrift military policy wise.

Trump is full of platitudes and slogans, but doesn't actually follow through.

Everything is in limbo, because there is no focus.

Mattis was the adult in the room, he quit, so now Trump seems to be ignoring the Pentagon.

It's not he's pulling out of NATO or any of that populist nonsense, he just seems disinterested now.

[Speaker to Animals]

It would make little sense for Canada to use single engine fighters whose daily operations would entail flying over subarctic water and ice.

You are better off using the same thing we do for that environment: an F-22.

[StCapps]

So will the Americans eventually make Canada buy the jets to stay in the program, or are they content to let Canada be the Ultimate Free Rider here?

Washington is adrift military policy wise.

Trump is full of platitudes and slogans, but doesn't actually follow through.

Everything is in limbo, because there is no focus.

Mattis was the adult in the room, he quit, so now Trump seems to just be ignoring the Pentagon.

Come on Secret President of Canada, make us buy the jets. Don't see why Mattis is needed in the room to come to that conclusion, especially with his anti-NATO Free Rider schtick, enough talk Trump, time for some action.

[StCapps]

It would make little sense for Canada to use single engine fighters whose daily operations would entail flying over subarctic water and ice.

You are better off using the same thing we do for that environment: an F-22.

America ain't going to let us buy the F-22 in the quantities required, F-22 isn't an option, even if Canada wanted them, which they don't. Thanks Obama.

So that leaves F-35.
/shrugs

[Smitty-48]

This is the sort of Millerist Fake Reform which results in paralysis by analysis.

Which the lefties in Canada love, because it results in Canada buying nothing.

[Speaker to Animals]

It would make little sense for Canada to use single engine fighters whose daily operations would entail flying over subarctic water and ice.

You are better off using the same thing we do for that environment: an F-22.

America ain't going to let us buy the F-22 in the quantities required, Thanks Obama. So that leaves F-35.
/shrugs

I find it unlikely that the Canadian Air Force will want to fly single engine aircraft, especially barely tested aircraft, over arctic waters.

The USAF does not fly such aircraft in that environment. Elemendorf is an F-22 and F-15 base.

[StCapps]

It would make little sense for Canada to use single engine fighters whose daily operations would entail flying over subarctic water and ice.

You are better off using the same thing we do for that environment: an F-22.

America ain't going to let us buy the F-22 in the quantities required, Thanks Obama. So that leaves F-35.
/shrugs

I find it unlikely that the Canadian Air Force will want to fly single engine aircraft, especially barely tested aircraft, over arctic waters.

The USAF does not fly such aircraft in that environment. Elemendorf is an F-22 and F-15 base.

Single Engine Doomsday For The Fail.