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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
I do wonder though, did people have similar opinions about our chanes with the Arrow at the time? Did it seem like a far fetched dream then too?
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I don't think it was far fetched at the time because we had the expertise and industry to at least make it feasible.
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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
I know we need something and we need it now, but I do believe given sufficient time and a chance, we could come up with a Canadian solution. And I'd bet we would do a hell of a job too.
Even Canadians don't give Canada enough credit.
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Sure we could come up with a Canadian solution, probably a great one, if we gave it the same kind of resources as a modern fighter development takes.
But there's a reason that the UK and Italy and Denmark and Canada and a bunch of others are involved in the F-35 program rather than rolling their own.
Canada could make it's own fighters, if we wanted to increase the per unit cost by a factor of 10. People balk at a cost of $120M each, what about $1.2B each.. there's a lot better things we could do with the rest of our military with that money.
We don't have the expertise and industry currently to design and build something like that, so that would make it even more expensive.
If we could get a bunch of countries to go in and buy some then it might make it more reasonable, but there's already a long list of established lines out there, convincing someone to bet on a brand new untested company and industry? Not gonna happen.