Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday that his government would not purchase early-warning-radar planes from the United States, opting instead for a European model.
Canada will purchase Swedish Saab’s GlobalEye, which is based on the Canadian-manufactured Bombardier Global 6500 jet.
Tensions between the US and Canada have been high since Donald Trump launched a trade war against the US’ northern neighbor and even suggested that Canada should become the 51st US state, which caused widespread outrage in Canada, just as Carney was seeking the post of prime minister and succeeded in getting elected to it.
Since then, the Canadian government has also opted ot review the planned purchase of US F-35 fighter jets to explore other options.
Makes sense. Endless grafting with no real innovation has made US mil tec questionable. F-35 was downed in its first actual combat mission that was not a balloon.
So much going on in that little comment of yours. The F-35 borrowed from the F-22 while reducing cost to become the JSF. It was effectively a downgrade on purpose
The F-22 was optimized for
The F-35 was optimized for
Also, your claim the F-35 was “downed in its first actual combat mission that was not a balloon” is not true. (A) There is still no confirmed combat shootdown of an F-35. And (B) F-35s have conducted non-balloon-related combat operations for years in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
So… not sure what you think you know, but it seems to be incorrect.
Iran shot down the F-35
They said they did. Still no proof
Why would the US admit it?
What the fuck is wrong with you people? Iran can provide the proof. Why the fuck would you continue to believe something after the initial “proof” was shown to be fake?
Not if it went down in the gulf. Also if it made it back to base and then was deemed to be beyond repair that still counts as a kill.
And you think you’re going to have this data made available during a war?
Against an enemy with no air defense. A biplane wouldn’t have been shot down either.
Sure, how about from the folks who shot it down. That wasn’t parts from a different plane, or AI generated.
Put it next to the claims of simultaneous laundry fires aboard US warships.
The f-35 is an indescribable wastage of money
You’re getting downvoted by simps who don’t know the history of this turd, they keep quoting design stats as if they are true.
F-35s were stuck over a year at Lockheed on software glitches, and they can’t fix it. Pentagon report.
US Navy even rejected them and refused to accept delivery.
This is a fucking Edsel.
I mean that’s just incorrect. I hate the US military industrial complex as much as the next person, but the US has easily some of the best tech in the world, in most military aspects. Space-based, air, land, sea surface, and undersea.
Now, is it extremely overpriced and really bad value for the tech? Absolutely, the corruption has seeped in from the complete government capture of the MIC.
It had…had…
Respectfully, I don’t think you really even understand this field. Has the leadership fucked things up to a huge extent? Yes.
Does that destroy all of the massive R&D investments in military tech over the last 2 decades (since 9/11 specifically)? Of course not.