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.
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.