[peter12]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Guess I'll post this here.

F-35's participate in Red Flag and it seems to have been successful

http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDispla...ttlespace.aspx

More on Red Flag

http://www.defensenews.com/articles/...ghest-test-yet

Lockheed Martin CEO talks about a $85 million per plane cost for the F-35A by 2019. which means that the original procurement of 65 aircraft for 9 billion dollars would be achievable including running costs. as 65 plans x 85 million would be about 5.5 billion US.

elsewhere

The Canadian Navy shipbuilding program has completely fallen apart to the point that a lot of the ship builders and designers have informed the government that they're not going to bid

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...ens-not-to-bid

General Dynamics wins a 309 million dollar contract to upgrade Canada's 141 LAV III IFVs.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/genera...132901873.html

Canada loses command position on Mali peacekeeping mission because they wanted to consult with Trump first (thank go)

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/nation...rump-officials

Come on, everybody not directly involved in that giant failure knows the F-35 is practically dead in the water. No way that plane is combat capable by 2019.