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Adler F 35 1 TV Video Interview LM exec. 8.5 minutes
(watch for the 'maggot infested dehydrated dog' scroller)

"Published on Aug 16, 2012 by F35Canada"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... s06P1JVVwo

Don't have sound - cannot lip read accents - hope it is informative. Very Happy

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Wow, must be much news in canada if a dog corpse being discovered makes news. No wonder they like to be dramatic about the F-35 debate.

munny wrote:

Wow, must be much news in canada if a dog corpse being discovered makes news. No wonder they like to be dramatic about the F-35 debate.

Its going to get alot worse. Wait till tuesday or wed.

Dont forget SunNews is the Foxnews of Canada, except a little less whirly... And in reference to the Dog headline, I believe that was a quite large puppy mill that was raided and had a bunch of dead dogs. IIRC, they showed staffers puking trying to cleanup the place....

F-35 jet program funding unchanged despite promised review By David Pugliese, The Ottawa Citizen August 19, 2012

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology ... story.html

"Canadian funding and participation in the F-35 stealth fighter jet program continues unchanged despite the Conservative government’s insistence it has launched a seven-point program to review the controversial purchase.

Steve O’Bryan, Lockheed Martin’s vice-president for F-35 program integration, says the company is still planning its deliveries of 65 of the jets to the Royal Canadian Air Force....

...O’Bryan said Lockheed Martin has been told Canada is still committed to receiving the aircraft and those will produced during the low-rate initial production (LRIP) 9 period. That production of Canadian planes takes place in 2014-2015, he added.

“They’re still part of our plans and they’re still part of the official profile,” O’Bryan said. “Canada has been fairly specific, at least to us, on the plan.”...

...[O'Bryan] said there are 100 aircraft on the production line and 40 F-35s flying. “We will have delivered 300 airplanes before Canada gets its first airplane,” he said...."

Nothing much else except usual Canadian for/against at URL. Very Happy

Story about the TV Interview at top of thread I presume...

Lockheed Martin executive says F-35s will deter 'potential adversary countries' Russia, China By TIM NAUMETZ 08/21/2012

http://www.hilltimes.com/news/news/2012 ... ries/31905

"...In a Sun News TV interview about opposition to the Conservative government’s decision to acquire a fleet of 65 F-35s for the Canadian Air Force, Lockheed Martin executive Steve O’Bryan defended the aircraft and, in response to a question from interviewer Lorne Gunther, explained why the U.S. and other members of an F-35 consortium feel the sophisticated and costly new warplane is required.

“I really can’t speak for Canada, but I can tell you what the other international countries are looking at,” said Mr. O’Bryan, a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot who is now vice-president of business development and customer engagement with Texas-based Lockheed Martin, the largest defence supplier to the U.S. military. “This is a 40-year plus lifespan that you’re buying a fighter jet, and we’re seeing other potential adversary countries that we would not likely face, like Russia and China, but if you look at the history of the last 40 years, we have faced off against their equipment and they are investing fifth-generation technologies. They are investing in this advanced equipment."

Mr. Bryan said that buying the F-35s would allow Canada to leverage the U.S.' armed services but other countries' investments to reduce ownership cost. "It allows you to out-pace the threat and it allows you the security of a deterrent threat no matter what the future capabilities or uncertainty may be,” he said...."

There are other stories about Tuesday's Canadian anti-F-35 briefings/hearings but I'll let others post them. Why? Because Wheeler is involved. Very Happy

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Adler F 35 1 CanUk TV interview LM exec