Looks good on paper
Posted February 16th, 2012 by Patrick LaMontagne with Comments Off
The F-35 fighter is starting to look a lot like a real pain in the afterburner. In the past couple of years, it has been revealed that members of the Air Force don’t really like it because it has one engine, whereas the F-18 has two. One engine failure in the CF-18, and a pilot can still make it home. Another flaw is that the F-35 has serious communication issues north of the Arctic Circle. Take a look at Canada on a globe, and consider if that’s important or not.
Costs are rising significantly, deliveries continue to be plagued by delays, other countries are scaling back or cancelling their own orders outright, but Canada is pushing on, like constantly pushing on a door that clearly has a PULL sign on it.
Once again, stubborn determination is riding roughshod over common sense, pretty much par for the course for this government.
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