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Showing posts with label JSF F-35. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JSF F-35. Show all posts
Monday, March 6, 2017

Bids For Permanent Fleet to Replace CF-18s Expected in 2019

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By: David Pugliese, The   National Post  The Liberal government plans to request bids for a new fleet of fighter jets as early as 2019, whic...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Bezan: Liberal’s fighter jet capability gap becomes a credibility gap

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Conservative Party defence critic James Bezan submitted this opinion piece on the Liberal government’s decision to purchase Super Hornet fig...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Williams: 3 ways the Liberals are making a mess of Defence Procurement

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By: Allan Williams, The government’s strategy to replace Canada’s CF-18s is reflective of a government that either has no comprehension of h...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Plan for stop-gap Super Hornets leaves question of Cost Unanswered

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By: Lee Berthiaume and Steve Lambert, Canadian Press  OTTAWA — The federal government unveiled its interim steps Tuesday in the long-fraught...

Ivison: Super Hornet Interim Buy a Political Decision

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By: John Ivison, The National Post In choosing to buy 18 Boeing Super Hornet fighters, the federal government has brought forward a politica...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Government to Buy 18 F/A-18 Super Hornets as Stop Gap before Competition

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By: Daniel Maillet, CAF Dispatch Author This afternoon the Government of Canada announced that it will pursue the purchase of 18 Boeing F/...

New fighter jets could cost more than Liberals Projected

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By: DANIEL LEBLANC AND STEVEN CHASE , The Globe and Mail  The Liberal Party promised massive savings on the purchase of new fighter jets ...

Cabinet could decide fighter jet plan as early as Today

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By: Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press An RAAF F/A-18 Super Hornet. Australia recently purchased the Super Hornet as a stop-gap measure ...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Government Again Considering Sole-Source Super Hornet Buy

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By: David Pugliese, National Post  A Liberal government proposal to buy Super Hornet fighter jets as a replacement for the air force’s aging...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Canada Expected to Launch new Fighter Competition

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By: David Pugliese, National Post  Canadian firms have now won $1 billion worth of work on the F-35 fighter jet, a selling point that aircra...
Monday, October 3, 2016

Counter Argument to Vimy Paper #33: The F-35 and the CF-18 Replacement Debacle

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On September 15th, 2016 - I published the Executive Summary of the CDA Institutes latest Vimy paper by Mr. Skimooka and the F-35 and the Ca...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Liberals accused of hijacking report recommending CF-18 Replacement and BMD Debate

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Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Opposition parties have accused the Liberals of hijacking a committee report that recommended ...
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...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

F-35 exit strategy: Canada could pay about $313M to pull out of jet program

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By: David Pugliese, The Ottawa Citizen Canada could withdraw from the F-35 stealth fighter jet program on short notice by paying a little mo...
Friday, August 19, 2016

F/A-18 & F-35 Come Face to Face in Canada

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By: David Pugliese, The Ottawa Citizen Last weekend the unicorn finally came to Canada. Sitting on the tarmac at the Abbotsford Air Show, th...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Liberals pay $33 million to stay in F-35 program

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By: Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Canada has so far forked over more than $311 million to develop the F-35 — without any guara...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Defence Minister to Make Announcement Regarding CF-18 Replacememt

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By: Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will shed some light on how the government plans to replace Canada...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Poll: Canadians want open competition to pick new jet,

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By: Daniel Leblanc, Globe and Mail The Trudeau government will suffer a blow in public opinion if it skips an open competition and hand-pick...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

The F-35 may be about to face even more delays

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By:  JEREMY BENDER , Business Insider The oft-troubled F-35 may be on the verge of facing an even greater series of delays that could affe...