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Originally Posted by Zulu29
How do you know we won't be getting super bugs prewired to be modified to growlers down the road? I fully agree with you about Trudeau and his muzzling of those on the fighter portfolio. Pretty disgusting. But I wouldn't count the F35 out yet. By the time 5 years rolls around the Eurofighter and Rafale will likely be out of production, leaving only the F35, Saab Gripen or Super Hornet as a replacement. Unless of course some new fighter comes along.
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The Super hornet is coming to the end of its production cycle. The USN isn't going to buy anymore as they push the F-35 replacement, and the small orders that are coming in aren't going to continue.
I don't know if there's a need for a true fleet of Growlers when we're basically going to be down to a 3 or 4 squadron airforce. Plus again, if you look at the Growler upgrade costs they're extremely high.
I would expect that all countries that are pushing forward in terms of military aviation are going to concentrate on building gen 5 or budget gen 5 fighters.