Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
- Banned
- #761
Canada Buys New F-18s After Canceling Its Order for the F-35 Canada Buys New F-18s After Canceling Its Order for the F-35
You failed to add the last two words or the end of the complete sentence. "For Now"! Yep, they favor the F-18, "For Now". But, they will be back when the heavy lifting is complete, and it will be completed. Not a bad days work, using an Cruiser to bring down the enemy, thereby saving it's own ammo load for another unsuspecting drone or AC it acquired 125 miles out, flying blind. Not a bad days work at all. And honestly, so what, just think of what the follow on's will be capable of. That is probably the Canadian thinking, We will fly the FA18 in a backup role and allow the F35 ABC use us as it wishes, when it wishes. And perhaps they are waiting for the 2017 Black Friday sale. What ever, it simply does not matter. The "thirty five" rules, over and over and over, just like the Energizer Bunny.
Canada has quite a few high time F-18C models. It's either get them replaced with some kind of newer bird or just watch them fall out of the sky. The F-18E/F is a proven bird and can keep their pilots flying and safe until the F-35 shows up with enough numbers to get the rest of the C models off the flight line.