It may provoke Trump, but Canada should cancel the purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the U.S.

They require software updates for every mission, that are distributed from the US.

You can probably fly / use it without those, but you lose all the advanced command & control features

They don’t function without phoning home to a US-controlled server every 24 hours.

Some high ranking US intelligence dude said something along the lines of that yeah. I dont think anyone has hacked into one of them to check or reverse engineer the code tho.

This would be amazing for us to bring back military building here in Canada!!

Absolute bozo move to not go for this in retrospect. They need to give this a look again asap

"have you said thank you even once"

The performance metrics are criticisize by US military journals.

There’s nothing stopping Canada from getting the manuals and patching the software.

If US military can't get them or patch the software, Canada can't either. Israel is special for not putting up with US BS.

This is the one that starved pilots of oxygen, right?

Why do you think the entirety of Europe has ordered so many F-35.

The reason for Germany is that other aircraft, by choice, have not been certified for use with US nuclear weapons.

Both are cheaper than F35... Do you have an access to the internet? The reason people were buying US planes is they thought the US walked the talk. They clearly don't, so they won't sell those anymore.

F35 is far more expensive to operate, so you end up paying more over the lifetime if you actually use it.

Of course the other aircraft don't have a bunch of fancy features of the F35, but maybe we don't need them, particularly in light of the US hostility and unpredictability. And the benefit of building our own is a factor as well.

As I undertand it, the F35 has only about 55% readiness and suffers SW problems as well.

The US is not the only game in town, and we need to be clear about that.

The gripen is more agile than the f35 and capable of austere landings. Arguably more important traits than the ability to carry American nukes.

Alliance isn't dying, just the US isn't really part of it anymore. The need for alliance is all the more stronger and it's imperative to remove all dependency on the US defense industry within that alliance. The US dropping military aid for Ukraine proves the US is a dishonourable country and shouldn't be trusted for anything anymore. By all indications, the US is surrendering to Russia because Trump is afraid of Putin.

The capabilities of the F-35 only represents the capability of an adversary now. We should use the ones we have to develop radar systems so we can shoot them down, and reverse engineer it's capabilities to improve the fighter aircraft produced by the free world (which no longer includes the US).

There's no way that's true, right?

“No u” come on with the childish shit. Yes we could trust Europe you dumb dumb. America literally wouldn’t exist without French support but you wanna be a contrarian so bad you just ignore everything and type out this moronic dribble

Yes we can. - an actual patriotic American not in a cult

Kindly - shut up. All those countries you don't trust followed America into Afghanistan, many into other wars. All lost citizens in support of American and joint interests, we did our part, as allies should. Guess we now know who is the real untrustworthy partner, and I doubt any of us will forget the betrayal anytime soon.

I hope your country survives people like you

Spoken like someone from the very very shallowest side of the gene pool. You're a mouth and an anus and not much else.

Where do your doubts come from? Please be specific.

Fak u

Idiot moron piece of shit removed. Go give Putin a footmassage and the keys to your house you bootlicking degenerate creature.

Here's the bad news. It's not.

I guess what I was trying to get at was that it was at one point and that we could if we wanted to become that again. I wasn't saying our current military is anywhere near the U.S military in any way, shape or form. I understand, quite clearly, just how out matched we are.

I was only putting forward the idea (which I agree with you, on) that we should absolutely rearm and become independent of their technology. We supply them the critical materials for their military. They need it. Maybe we should rethink that (not a popular idea, though).

While I do not believe the US will actually invade Canada

Until a few weeks ago I did not believe the US would impose tariffs on Canada or call it the "51st state," so...

You have to enter a password to start up the F35. That password changes every day and USA needs to give these passwords. Locking a country out of the plane is as simple as stop sending the new passwords.

Don't forget the Gripen. There's a great offer for domestic production still on the table, and it's the asymmetric stall-an-invasion fighter.

Put the funds from that cancellation toward a contract with Ukraine for advanced drone technology and the capacity to manufacture it domestically.

There’s a hell of a lot of “Congress has to authorize” that’s being blatantly ignored right now.

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the President has a 30 day authority to use the military anywhere in the world. After 30 days he needs congressional authority. He can get a second 30 days while that's going on and if Congress says no then he has to remove all troops within a final 30 day period.

If Congress never says anything then he effectively has a blank check.

Your best bet would actually be to run TV Ads trying to get the military to refuse the order. I think a large percentage actually would. I also think he's going to invade Mexico first and if he does invade Canada he'll do it like the Russians did Ukraine. (They told their troops it was a training mission and then only told them at the border that it was real)

When the us comes crawling back we should make them pay reparations for any economic or other damages before they're welcomed back.

Exactly. With a Presidential Monarchy, no deal or treaty can be trusted past the next election (assuming they'll still have those).

More than more Trump, we are also seeing a complete abandonment of the US much vaunted system of checks and balances. You simply can't deal with them except in 4 year periods.

If you look back at the history of the US, it's been fairly reliable in it's first world alliances.

I'm confused.
That's not a poem.

I was assured that Sprog bestows awesome poems upon the masses.

Fighter planes are very expensive to develop.

The F-35 program cost something around $1.7 trillion. That's several times the annual GDP of Canada. That's more than half of Canada's annual GDP.

A better bet would be to enter some joint development program with partners in the EU.

From what I understand, those are fine if you're going up against enemies that don't have stealth (and all the ancillary technologies that go with it).

The general military analysis is that the F-35 and J-35 are superior to anything else in the air and are similar in capabilities to each other. Conflicts between them will come down to who can make more of them faster. Conflicts between one of them and an older generation fighter seems to be, they'll blow you up before you can see them.

EU better get cracking and start making stealth planes.