Forum: Program and politics

Here is an interesting news article written by Mathew Fisher on the F-35 and the F-18.

Quote:

One of the untold stories of the F-35 saga has been how opponents of the aircraft have come to urge Canada to switch from Lockheed Martin’s fifth-generation Lightning II to Boeing’s fourth-generation F-18E/F Super Hornet.

In the opinion of one bureaucrat at public works, the stealth campaign against the Joint Strike Fighter “has been brilliantly conceived and orchestrated” by Boeing, whose Super Hornet is based on technologies developed in the 1970s.

There have been many suggestions that Canada should buy Boeing’s Super Hornets because the Royal Australian Air Force has bought a few. The U.S. Navy has also recently placed a small order for some additional Super Hornets, but those are being bought to specifically fill a gap caused by delays in the development of the F-35. They are not meant to replace it.

More at the jump.

http://blogs.theprovince.com/2012/05/07/matthew-fisher-f-35-critics-ignore-canadas-need-for-a-jet-of-the-future/

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HuH? (from Mr.Fisher): "...The British decided to purchase the jump version of the F-35, switched to the cheaper conventional takeoff variant that Canada is buying, and then switched back to the jump-jet model again when it was realized that the Royal Navy needs an aircraft to land on a pair of hugely expensive aircraft carriers it is building. Yet these follies, which involve billions of pounds in additional expense, have not attracted nearly the same scrutiny or opprobrium as Canada’s potential purchase of the F-35...." Very Happy

News to me.

Last sentence - ooohh aahhh: "...Although the government has been characteristically silent about it, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot has already flown an F-35 simulator."

spazsinbad , were you expecting technical accuracy from a Canadian journalist? If you were ,you expect way to much!

Well we did get another conspiracy theory - a bonus - and that was nice:

"...In the opinion of one bureaucrat at public works, the stealth campaign against the Joint Strike Fighter “has been brilliantly conceived and orchestrated” by Boeing, whose Super Hornet is based on technologies developed in the 1970s...."

It seems to me the whole orchestration is from political opponents of the current government because they did not follow a process. And I don't care. Very Happy

Forum: Program and politics

Matthew Fisher: F-35 critics ignore Canada’s need for a jet