Please. You knew I wasn't serious right? Those museum relics are rotten to the core, and would likely shed parts all the way down the runway with the first thrust application.frosti wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:35 pmPretty much the dumbest idea I've heard yet. Nice try though.Duke Point wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:47 am reactivate the VooDoo's from all our museums and put a couple of new engines on em…. DONE.
Everything else is a HUGE waste of tax dollars that ---- I and you ---- could spend elsewhere.
Our convoluted fighter procurement program is only a reflection of our vastly intelligent Canadian public, along with their ideas, to what our military needs. The government is in no hurry to replace the Hornets because Canadians as a whole, don't really care, about anything really, beyond their borders. Ask your average Canadian and their response will ultimately be "the US will protect us". While that may be true, the US will only defend their own interests, which includes Canadian resources. It will only take a US president to say enough is enough and give Canada an ultimatum to which we will bend over to like the cowards we are.
Fighters are an archaic concept perpetuated to groom the egos of "muscle flexing countries" and fighter jocks who live in a bygone era. Drones and sattelites can do nearly everything a fighter jet can do at a fraction of the cost.
Canada will never deploy a fighter force large enough to make -any- difference in -any- theater anyway.
Canada hasn't been serious since the Arrow program was cancelled....why would we be? There is NO threat coming from Russia, China or North Korea that ---any fighter of any capacity--- that Canada could purchase---in the numbers we intend to purchase---would make ANY difference.
Reality sucks if you're an aspiring fighter pilot, but that era has passed, so we shouldn't WASTE money on it.
Ten to twelve new Boeing P8's, about 30 Predator drones and a proper fleet of Icebreaking patrol ships, and a couple of Heavy Icebreakers would be more than sufficient to protect our boarders.....from what exactly, I don't know.
FYI…..No country will be invading Canada......and -any- "serious incursion" ( if there ever is one....EVER) will be dealt with on the political stage.
DP.