U.S. ambassador gives prime minister the cover he needs to cut Canada’s F-35 order (ca.news.yahoo.com)

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The F-35 is a poison pill for Canadian defence sovereignty against a hostile America. We cannot win against an invasion, but with the Gripen we can make it a phyrric victory for them.

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[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

I would actually say go ahead with the limited purchase. Then use the F-35 as aggressor aircraft in training that way we know how to fight them.

[-] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

Doesn't the US hold some software keys?

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I know what he’s talking about: not against American pilots, but as make-believe American pilots.

Which is a good idea, but not perfect: American pilots will have noticeably different behaviours and tactics, and even personality types that are (generally) not found up here. While training against other Canadians in an F-35 is great, it’s not as good as training against Americans in an F-35.

But that’s the trick - how do we get America, using F-35 aircraft, to help us to train up our Gripen pilots?

And when our original order of 88 or so F-35 planes could, if completely cancelled and on a per-dollar basis, buy 420 Gripens straight from Europe, how do we get America to unknowingly train up so many Gripen pilots?