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Showing posts with label CF-18 Life Extension. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CF-18 Life Extension. Show all posts
Monday, March 5, 2018

CF-18 Life-Extension To Cost at Least $1.5 Billion

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By: David Pugliese, The National Post  Canadians could be paying more than $1.5 billion extra as the operating life of the military’s aging ...
Monday, January 29, 2018

RCAF to Fly CF-18s until 2032

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By: David Puglise, The National Post  Canada will squeeze even more flying time out of its aging CF-18s, keeping the jets operating for anot...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

RCAF to ask for $500 million in spending for CF-18 upgrades

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By: David Pugliese, The National Post The Canadian military is hoping to ask the government early next year for approval to spend up to $500...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Vimy Paper: The F-35 Program, Defence Procurement, and the CF-18 Replacement Debacle

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The Conference of Defence Associates has published it's latest Vimy Paper.  In it, Richard Shimooka outlines the troubled history of th...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

A Mixed Fighter Fleet for Canada? Super Hornets, F-​35s, and the challenge of comparisons

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By: Dr. Peter Layton, CDA Institute  Every country has an F-​35 story it seems. Both Australian and Canadian force structure planning has be...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Liberals: RCAF Doesn't have enough CF-18s

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By: Lee Berthiaume, National Post/ Post Media  OTTAWA — The Liberal government says it is pressing ahead with upgrades to Canada’s CF-18s so...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

CF-18 Airframe hours for entire RCAF Fleet

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By: David Pugliese, New information tabled in the House of Commons gives some insight into the number of hours on the airframes of the RCAF’...

CF-18 airframes approaching their age limits: Report

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By: Murray Brewster, CBC News  Canada's current fleet of CF-18s is rapidly wearing out, according to new figures tabled in Parliament, a...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Lockheed Martin still has hopes to sell Canada the F-35

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By: Jordan Press, The Canadian Press  A top executive says the firm wants back into the competition to replace CF-18s, and will “evaluate...

Liberals cite CF-18 'capability gap' due to upgrades being in limbo

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By: Murray Brewster, CBC News  A nearly $500-million upgrade to the country's CF-18 jet fighters, ordered by the Harper government alm...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Liberals playing defence with reports of Super Hornet Purchase

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By: Lee Berthiaume & David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen (Post Media)  The Liberal government has brushed aside opposition concerns following...

Sole-sourcing Super Hornets; Liberals now look identical to Tories on fighter file

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By: John Invison, Post Media  The idea that political power corrupts is hardly new: George Orwell chronicled its corrosive effects in penetr...
Monday, June 6, 2016

RCAF Super Hornets - Difference between CF-18 and F/A-18 Super Hornet

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With today's announcement that the Liberal Government will purchase an undisclosed number of Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets as an int...
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Liberals to Purchase F/A-18 Super Hornet as Interim Replacement to CF-18

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By: Lee Berthiaume, Ottawa Citizen  The Liberal government is intent on buying Super Hornet fighter jets, according to multiple sources ...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Sajjan: CF-18's Need Replacement Now

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By: Daniel Leblanc - The Globe and Mail  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has pushed the purchase of new fighter jets to the top of his prio...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Window Slowly Closing on Availability of Super-Hornet

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By: David Pugliese, Defence Watch The Liberals promised that if elected they would begin an immediate competition to purchase a replacement ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

CF-18 Life-Extension Risks; Canada looks to fly fighters past the age of 40.

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By: Daniel Maillet, CAF Dispatch author April 25, 2016 As Canada's Defence Review gets started the debate as to which fighter should ...