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Originally Posted by speede5
The only way Canada wins by building it's own fighters is if they can secure the build on a good amount of export aircraft as well. It just doesn't work to do a short run. It has to become a sustainable industry.
Easy on BI, I happen to think we know a fair bit about aircraft. haha. Bombardier would be best equipped to give it a go in Canada, but it's not even on the radar.
Canada is going to be going after the training side of things though, if the F35 program ever launches expect to see a fighter training program similar to NFTC.
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By the time we developed and tooled up production for a 65 plane run it would make the F-35 price per plane look like pennies.
On top of this the production line for building private jets and cargo planes is far different from the precision lines and exotic materials assembly for a next generation fighter so no we don't have the facilities or the industry to build our own jet.
Plus there's next to no chance that the major players in the aerospace industry would give Canada easy entrance into that market and its not a huge market if you take countries like the U.S. and the eurozone out of the market place because they build their own planes.