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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Did Ignatieff say that he would cancel the purchase of replacements for CF-18 fleet altogether or just that he would open up bidding to competing aerospace firms rather than sole-sourcing the contract to Lockheed Martin?
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He implied that he would cancel the deal and reopen the bidding.
Its a dumbass move considering that we invested in the development of the fighter and are reaping benefits.
Cancelling and re-opening would probably also delay a purchase for another decade under the Liberal's and we'd get a half a$$ replacement fighter.
to me if you have a small airforce, then you need as many force multipliers as you can get. You get the best force multipliers in a fifth generation fighter.
When you consider that the Russians, French, Chinese, Indian's and Japanese are all pursuing 5th generation fighter technology then why in the hell would you buy something thats already well into becoming obsolete.