

Canada reserves the right to back out of F-35



Sources: Star-Telegram, The Star

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Of Course
By Reclaimer77 on 3/14/2012 2:44:16 PM , Rating: 2
We all saw this coming. Once again the United States agrees to stupidly enter a multinational "joint" venture, only to absorb 90+% of the costs and be left holding the bag in the end.

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By arazok on 3/14/2012 3:33:07 PM , Rating: 4
Well the old way saw the US government absorbing 100% of the costs, and holding the bag in the end. So this seems like an improvement, doesn't it?

This really isn't that big of a deal. Everyone signed up to this deal knowing that if we all bought XX number of jets, they would cost $## to produce per jet. As the recession hit and countries began backing out of the deal, the costs rose, leading more and more countries to back out.

Canada was one of the few countries to grudgingly stick by this deal, until it became clear that even the US government was planning to scale back it's order - dramatically increasing our costs even further.

If you guys can't commit to your own deal, why on earth would anyone else?

And really, nothing happens as far as NATO goes without the US leading the call, so having NATO partners buying jets and using them to bomb our enemies is really just a foreign subsidy of your own military operations anyway. It's not like Canada could ever decide to attack...lets say, Syria on it's own accord without getting explicit permission from the US.

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By Reclaimer77 on 3/14/2012 3:36:58 PM , Rating: 2
Hey you're preaching to the choir. I never wanted the damn thing to be built in the first place. I said years ago, if you think the F-22 is too expensive, wait until this "JSF" business starts.

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By Jeffk464 on 3/14/2012 8:23:15 PM , Rating: 2

It still benefits the US in the end you get force amplification. Traditionally the US, Canada, Australia,and England go to war together. So you end up with a much larger force than any of the countries could have managed on its own. So even if they bought them without paying any of the development costs its still a good deal.

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By TSS on 3/15/2012 3:40:13 AM , Rating: 5
Hey screw you buddy. We dutch agreed because you guys said they would be about $30 million a pop. Not $130 million. How about you first learn to calculate before you start pointing fingers.

And our cabinet is basically still saying "we'll leave it up to the next guys" even though 78% of the population (according to the last poll) is calling on them to pull the plug already. Even though they did order a 2nd test plane recently.

Which cost $300 million. Ironically, that's the same amount we're cutting from spending on the chronically mentally ill because "we're spending too much".

Yeah. Don't expect our order of the JSF to go through.

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By NellyFromMA on 3/15/2012 12:10:51 PM , Rating: 2
You're writing as if somehow America is being spoken for here as a single person?

You do know America isn't a single person, right?

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By todd omy on 3/18/2012 8:29:14 AM , Rating: 2
Ummm yea see countries are bailing faster than light moving away from the sun, is because costs are spiralling out of control. If the budget for the F35 was a dart board the size of the moon, the dart thrown at that budget may hit mars... BUT that's only what it looks like now, that budget dart might be on a one way ticket outside of the solar system. IF you could build a plane and keep the $ even remotely close to the original cost countries wouldn't be bailing on this epic failure of a project.

