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Originally Posted by peter12
Yeah, my first thought was the Iltis too. I can't imagine how costly a snafu a Quebec union-produced Swedish 4.5 generation fighter plane would be for the Canadian taxpayer, but who cares, right?
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A lot of people got very rich over the Iltis deal including close buddies of the Quebec Government at the time. I can just imagine how much money Bombardier would make in terms of building a Fighter Jet production facility for a one time run of aircraft from the Government.
And it would be a 1 time production run of 120 fighters, its not like we can export and sell Bombardier JAS-39's. So what happens after the run is over, maintenance facilities would be a separate deal.
It sounds good on paper, a boom to the aerospace industry, jerbs, but until they can show a true cost of doing that and building twice as many JAS-39's as the F-35 for example, it seems like it would be a really expensive solution with the possibility of significant cost over runs for a nice, but not as capable plane that has to be in service for 50 years or more.
Oh, and if the Government wanted this to be open, they'd also open the competition to other provinces for the facility in a far and impartial way.