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Originally Posted by MarchHare
It's not untrue at all.
The JSF program was a competition between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, but Canada was under no obligation to buy the winning fighter without even looking at other options. This is what I take issue with. Other aircraft manufacturers were not permitted to submit a competitive bid for the replacement to our CF-18s.
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I'm generally all in favour of a competition, but bottom line is that no other 5th generation fighter is even on the market, except the F-22 which the Americans won't sell.
We are buying jets that we'll operate for the next 30 years, I don't see any sense in buying something that will be soon obsolete to save about three-fifty.