IS IT GOING TO BE A FAIR COMPETITION?
From the very start of this blog (and the one before it) its mission has been to advocate for a fair and open competition to replace the CF-18. At the time, one of the biggest issues regarding Canada's pending F-35 purchase was how the fighter was selected in the first place. For those of you who do not remember, the JSF was chosen with barely a cursory glance towards its competition. The reasoning for this was that the F-35(C) was replacing the F/A-18 in the USA, so it only made sense... Never mind that the F-35 was developed with little-to-no thought into Canada's needs and budgets. In what now seems like a perfect storm of controversy, Canada's JSF purchase was delayed, "reset", and then eventually cancelled altogether following years of cost overruns, technical issues, and criticism. The Liberal Party of Canada's promise to nix the F-35 purchase helped them win the last federal election. "LOL... I don't know." Despite the