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Old 10-06-2023, 08:35 AM   #1938
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I'm actually terrified of what's going to happen with the F-35's I mean we know they're going to be built stateside, but Canadian companies and the government are going to have their hands all over facilities upgrades and maintenance, and I'm sure the same bad actors are going to bloat the costs.
Lockheed/USG dictate everything, the entire (new) perimeter fence in Cold Lake is being replaced for not meeting their specs. The hangars will be all new, they are already being built. The security level required to work on it will exclude most civilians from even touching the aircraft, I don't know how DND is going to manage that as there is civilian maintenance in almost every program. Thanks to ITAR a lot of money will be going south from this program.
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