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GreenKnight121 said:
You clearly stated that there are two European projects to replace the F-35.



See the part I bolded?

Or are you trying to say there are two OTHER European fighter projects ongoing and that it is those that will replace the F-35?
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For a number of European nations that currently use or plan to use the F35, one of the two 6th Generation aircraft projects being developed in Europe will almost certainly eventually replace the F35. In the same way they only used the F16 and replaced them with the F35. Others will no doubt use the two tier approach.

However I notice that you haven't disagreed with the main point of my posting which was: -

However the original point still stands. The USA no longer has a stranglehold on the ability to design and develop highly advanced military aircraft. If its not careful, it will have to fund the development and build on its own. The rest of the world have options, good options.
 
The U.S. is in the process of developing a 6th gen fighter by way of the F/A-XX/NGAD program (USN/USAF respectively).

This programs are to replace the F/A-18 and F-22, which currently augment the F-35 nd don't appear to have planned export options.

In foreign militaries, their F-35 is augmented by their fighter of choice when needed.
 
You could be correct but Canada is now being reported to be looking for alternatives to the majority of the F35 order. They have paid for the first batch but are looking for alternatives to the rest because they don't consider the USA to be a trustworthy supplier.

If I remember correctly the Gripen was a close contender in the first selection process and has to be a serious option.
 
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The other fighters didn't meet the RCAF's requirements, I'm still thinking 'political theatre'.

To me, any significant change seems unlikely (7:05 - 12:25).


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbNzrQQUxqI
 
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As noted elsewhere, the first Canadian F-35 Squadron (let alone the entire fleet) isn't expected to be operational until 2029. For some strange reason -- which may or may not involve the phrase 'Term Limits', I expect the current level of chaos to be drastically reduced by then.

I'd rather see the RCAF get the aircraft they selected as meeting their requirements vs. an inadequate option for the sake of politics.

As stated in the video I posted here a couple of months ago -- Professor Justin Bronk:
... the only other thing to to ask ... even if one doesn't want to go into all the technical side of things is okay; ... why has almost every country that has been allowed to look at it 'behind the black curtain' so to speak--so been allowed to look into some of the more classified capabilities and compare them to other aircraft on the market--why have almost every single one that's been allowed to look gone for the F-35? Because not just political alignment with America. In some cases that was the key thing, but a lot of cases (and I've seen some of the metrics on some of those competitions) there's a very very good reason why countries that require an ability to operate in contested airspace--if they have the option--almost exclusively buy the F-35, and have done for 10 years.

And he recently wrote on twitter re: the current drama:

On F-35 fears, I get it - there is real dependency.

But if all your targeting capacity, beyond line-of-sight comms, penetrating/orbital ISR, and the munitions you assume you'd fight with in a war are US-provided; then dependency on the US for Mission Data Files and Autonomic Logistics Information System/Operational Data Integrated Network for F-35 isn't your main problem.
 
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Looks like Britain may invite Canada to the GCAP project.

UK open to Canadian involvement in new fighter jet project

The UK government has signalled its openness to future collaboration with Canada on the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), the international effort to develop a next-generation fighter jet by 2035.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk

This would presumably be a late 2040s successor for Canada's incoming mixed force of F-35s and Rafales/Gripens/Typhoons.
 
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