".... many articles here , check previous issues as well".
Thanks pb. Previous research
you have provided on the disconnect between RCAF 'requests' and actual Federal Government 'purchases' and 'license-builds' .... and, in Canada, with the heart of the aviation industry located in MONTREAL, QUEBEC
the build issue is always compounded and conflicted by BUILDS . [You cited as an example of this disconnect the 1939 RCAF request for P-39's and B-26's as an identified requirement (and license build) ... and the government's response with Lancs, Hurricanes and Mossies acquired and built] This was news to me and very thought provoking. As a Canadian I ask a Canadian: what if the Avro Arrow program had been located in Montreal, Quebec and not Anglo Toronto, Ontario ...? Had that been the political reality, could Diefenbaker have cancelled the program?
Fubar57 as one (former) Cat-Scraper (635) operator to another .
.... You say: "the current government is sorely lacking" .... I reply: "... they have NOT had to pay $500 million to get out of a helicopter contract, they didn't buy/trade for a bunch of ill-maintained de-commissioned RN diesel subs, and, they didn't originally commit Canada to the F-35 program
in the first place. The (now) third party in Canada did all those things to the military during their many years in office, n'est-ce pas?
In a democracy,
EVERY advanced AC has 'political' problems ** - either costs or deaths or both - the Prime Minister of Canada is playing the cards he was dealt very skillfully IMHCO.
F-35 Fan
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** Speaking of which, sad to hear that the Marines have lost another Osprey