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CaptainCrunch · 02-04-2013, 05:53 PM

I think its an over romanticized article. Its not like we have the facilities, the secondary manufacturing and the workforce to build our own fighter jets right now, Bombardier would have to open up a whole secondary divisions and build the facilities to do this.

The writer forgot the whole Iltis Jeep boondoogle, when the Germans offered to manufacture them for us for about $25,000 a pop, but Chretien insisted on it being build by Bombardier since he had families working there and we ended up paying 3x as much per vehicle.

02-04-2013, 05:53 PM	#164
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	I think its an over romanticized article. Its not like we have the facilities, the secondary manufacturing and the workforce to build our own fighter jets right now, Bombardier would have to open up a whole secondary divisions and build the facilities to do this. The writer forgot the whole Iltis Jeep boondoogle, when the Germans offered to manufacture them for us for about $25,000 a pop, but Chretien insisted on it being build by Bombardier since he had families working there and we ended up paying 3x as much per vehicle. __________________ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!