About That F-35 Bill
The F-35 programme has been underway for, well, eleven years. Current plans call for completion of testing in 2019. Here’s a sobering look at F-35 development taken from Aviation Week.…
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F-35 Fiasco Dumped Into Harper’s Lap
The Harper government has tried to scapegoat its way out of the F-35 debacle, blaming bureaucratic bungling, deceit within National Defence, just about any likely target that could deflect responsibility…
Fifth Generation, Maybe, But It’s Still Gen 5.0
Harper DefMin, Peter MacKay, like a trained seal smacking its flippers, constantly barks about the Lockheed F-35 being a “Fifth Generation” fighter and, hence, oh so much superior to all…
Best Abbott & Costello Routine of 2012: The F-35 Fighter Jets
The Abbott & Costello routine above is exemplary of the Harper Government’s miscommunication. While the comedy routine is meant to amuse, the Government’s routine on F-35s is meant to obfuscate.…
The F-35, Should Canada Sit This One Out?
Maybe Canada should just give the F-35 a pass and wait for something a lot better. Like the Aussies and US Navy we could opt for a proven, capable, reliable,…
Why No Competition?
Lockheed Martin has a number of F-35s built and flying. Surely it’s got more than enough to get a few up to the Cold Lake air base to strut their…
The Campaign to Rehabilitate the F-35 Has Begun
If you felt relieved that the Harper authority had given up on the F-35, think again. That the stealth light attack bomber is still very much alive in the bosom…
Will Lockheed Even Compete for Canada’s Fighter Business? Don’t Count on It.
As a face-saving measure the instinctively dishonest Conservatives say they have ‘reset’ the programme to find a CF-18 replacement and, this time, there’ll be a proper competition. Don’t hold your…
Harper’s 46-Billion Dollar Boondoggle
The numbers are in and the big number is 46 as in 46-billion dollars to purchase, arm, fuel, fly and maintain a paltry fleet of 65 F-35s over a 42-year…
F-35 Jet Fiasco: Harper Conservatives Heavily Monitored Public Perception
Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, Canada is fast becoming a real “surveillance state”. One that obsessively monitors critics of public policy and government action… and the “tone”…
KPMG reports on fighter jet cost over runs…
…are due out as early as today. And they might be embarrassing for the CPC government as the real costs may come in as much as three times higher than…
"Panic all over" on the F-35 at Mr. Harper’s feet
If this is true, that aerospace contractors are suddenly all aflutter given the news out of Ottawa on the F-35, then it’s squarely on the shoulders of Stephen Harper and…
ConCalls: Week of Hell #RoboCon
The Conservatives have had a (deservedly) rough week, and it’s about to get more rough next week. The Council of Canadians’ court challenge is Monday. The Prime Minister closed out…
F-35 Surprising comments from MPs in 2011
The following are rough notes from a TV clip between Liberal Marc Garneau and Conservative Laurie Hawn regarding the now newly cancelled F-35 project due to skyrocketing costs and American…
Sifting Through the Wreckage of Canada’s F-35 Fiasco
The Harper government’s abandonment of the “troubled” F-35 buy has seismic implications. This is the first time Stephen Harper truly lost his mojo. He wanted this hopelessly flawed warplane so…
F-35 May Not Be Usable in Asia Either.
Range may be the Achilles’ Heel of the F-35 stealth light attack bomber. At the end of the day, the Joint Strike Fighter may not be the right warplane for…
Why Spend a Fortune for a "Troubled" Anything?
In news reports it's common to see the adjective "troubled" used in conjunction with F-35. It may, by common usage, become that warplane's new name - the "troubled F-35."The F-35…
Top General Contradicts Boss, Airshow MacKay
Military bullshitter-in-chief, Elmer's backward boy, Peter MacKay, got taken to the woodshed by his own, newly-minted Chief of Defence Staff Tom Lawson.In question was MacKay's outlandish claim that only the…
The Missing First Step
Rona Ambrose has a typically Ambrosian approach to hunting down Canada's next combat jet to replace the stellar but aging CF-18s.Rona's gonna chat. She's going to talk to our allies…
F-35 Enters USMC Service – Sort Of
The United States Marine Corps has accepted delivery of its very first F-35 stealth light bomber - or some of it anyway."The Lockheed Martin-built plane’s computerized logistical system, flight software…