The trouble with this conversation is the assuption that we need a plane that is effective, frankly we don't, we are the Air National Guard of Canada, we will never need to 'sneak in' and bomb anything.
If we buy a US plane that can do the sneaking in and then we ever follow the yanks off to Iran they will find a mission to justify the money we shovel Lockheeds way but they don't need us there strategically and if we went out and bought a few old phantoms from Crazy Als discount Fighter Store it would make no difference to the yanks or us.
The purpose of our military is too enable the politicians to score brownie points with the yanks by throwing in a small force to what ever hare brained scheme they have come up with, the yanks neither want or need us militarily, they just want some token force to presuade the UN and their own people they arn't actually invading some desert crap hole, as it appears fairly clear the US people have no appitite for that any more it is unlikely anything we buy now will be used for anything other than tooling around Cold Lake or the like.
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