<![CDATA[Outstanding.]]>Outstanding. Canada is far too deferential to the Americans, far too dependent on them for military hardware. We’d do better not only to buy elsewhere, but to develop domestically. The Avro Arrow was killed because its mission disappeared—but Canada’s military aviation industry was dismantled at the same time, to appease the USA. Adopting or with generous industrial offsets, would begin to correct that historical blunder.

https://thewalrus.ca/the-iran-war-may-be-the-best-argument-against-buying-us-weapons/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/49469bc0-791c-4084-bd2b-bfb374395d99/outstanding.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 06:42:26 GMTMon, 11 May 2026 17:12:36 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Outstanding. on Mon, 11 May 2026 17:19:34 GMT]]>Consider the long, degrading debacle of the F–104 Starfighter, an aircraft the US never deigned to deploy, but which it sold through systematic bribery and deceit to many of its allies, and which killed scores of its pilots. Lockheed knew it was a widow-maker. We should have blackballed the company for good after that experience; Canada should never have considered the F–35 for a millisecond. The whole F–35 program exemplifies everything corrupt and incompetent in military procurement today.

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