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Originally Posted by Azure
Thought he would do a good job in his role, but its obvious to me that is turning into a political hack.
Sad because I like a lot of what the Trudeau government is doing. I hope he steps down and they get someone in there that actually cares about improving the military and looks at something other than a 2 month outlook.
There are reports of countries like Israel and the US using the F-35 in missions already and Canada still can't decide what we want.
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So looking at F-35 deployments
Australia - 2 delivered for training, 70 on order, expected another 28 planned
Israel - 5 delivered and being used for training and operational integration, 50 purchased and 75
Italy - 1 delivered for testing, 2 in use for transition training, 5 on order with 30 more expected and a total fleet of 75
Japan - 5 on order a total of 38 planned to be built locally
Netherlands - 2 in use, 8 on order 35 planned
Norway - 4 operational a total of 52 planned
Turkey 6 ordered 120 planned
US - 34th fighter squadron operational
422nd test and evaluation active
58th fighter squadron active
61st fighter squadron active
62nd fighter squadron active
63rd fighter squadron active
461st test squadron active
31st test squadron active
The above are training billets
UK - 4 delivered testing 14 on order with another 42 on fast track. Total of 138
United States - Marine corps
VMFA-121 Japan active F-35B active
VMFA-211 Arizona F-35B active
Meanwhile the Superhornet purchase has gone extremely quiet. There are some concerns that this will be costlier then the Liberals promised (5 to 7 billion for 18 aircraft) and might not represent a costs savings as a transitional aircraft for Canada. As well there are problems with the Oxygen delivery systems.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/super...lems-1.3358693
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...sting-billions
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/col...anada-grounded
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...ter-pilots-say
edit add on red flag results
http://www.popularmechanics.com/mili...lag-war-games/