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Originally Posted by automaton 3
This is a punt, no real surprise.
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It absolutely is.
If they go ahead and buy Super Hornets, that basically guarantees that we never purchase the F-35, or anything else, until they're falling apart. At least in this government's lifetime, anyway.
Trudeau doesn't have the stones to go back on his "no F-35" promise, so this is just a way of buying time until he's no longer the PM.
I'm not saying Super Hornets are bad, but if you have to replace the entire fleet, you might as well go with the latest technology. Why spend the money twice?