Early American stealth technology, the F-117 kind, relied heavily on angled plates and special paint to prevent radar waves from being returned to enemy receivers. The current stealth technology relies…
The Pentagon’s F-35 programme director wants to slow down production because of the mass of problems turning up in testing. “The analyzed hot spots that have arisen in the last…
Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgaber wonders why Rick Mercer got the job, or something. Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Brent Rathgeber as he really appears; Globe…
Look, It’s a Turkey – Sitting in Front of a Turkey The way things are going, the F-35 may save Canada from getting F-35’d. Every couple of weeks I Google…
The overdue, overbudget F-35 will, yawn, be another two years late. A USAF general informed a congressional panel today that the long-delayed aircraft, most recently promised for 2016, won't be…
One of the most worrisome aspects (there are several) of the Harper government's F-35 fetish is the paltry number of them we'll be able to afford. This deal is already…
The Maginot Line. It was a massive, intricate, costly and high-tech line of fortifications the French built along the German border to defend themselves after WWI. The line consisted of…
Why should I have to register my flying car? I’m a law-abiding driver! Civilian variants of the $100-million-plus F-35, without working radios, may not be exactly as illustrated. Below, Edmonton…
Oh the poor F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Harper-MacKay's sweet fortune's minion and her pride.Nat Po's Michael Den Tandt has a telling assessment suggesting that the F-35 project is unraveling.“It just…
The Pentagon has just announced it is again grounding the F-35 fleet, the third time this year.The 20 operational test and training aircraft were ordered parked Wednesday until engineers and…
Lockheed Martin represents the bleeding edge of American military airpower. Lockheed produced the F-22 Raptor stealth super fighter and is struggling to churn out the F-35 Lightning II stealth bomb…
The Australian government has revealed it may scrap its plan to buy 100 F-35s because of delivery delays and ongoing cost overruns. Repeated delays and ballooning costs in the F-35…
Okay, Now I Need To Know How to Flush This ThingAlready America's most-expensive ever military purchase, the F-35 project price tag just went up by three quarters of a billion…
In an alternate universe, let's call it Planet Sane, eyes would roll, heads would shake and tongues would wag over how a bloated project, like Lockheed's F-35 joint strike fighter…
The late Colonel John "40 Second" Boyd would have a thing or three hundred to say about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and not one of them good. Boyd was…
Stevie Harper's insistence on saddling Canada with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has enormous significance for our country's military and diplomatic future. Forget the business about defending Canada's vast northern…
For the life of me, I can't come up with a blog post title that expresses that I just want to include a number of items, briefly and that has…
A radar-evading F-35 “Flying Bathtub” fighter waits on the tarmac for takeoff. Below, U.S. Sen. John McCain in jet-flying duds, back in the day.Well, you know how it goes: here…
Well, this is going to be an interesting week isn’t? In case you haven’t heard, the UN Security Council just approved a No Fly Zone over Libya. The wording was…
Ceasefire.ca, the public arm of the Rideau Institute, in conjunction with rabble.ca has stated that March 3rd is the official day of action for all those who want to speak…
