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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

U.S. expert says F-35 purchase is wrong deal for Canada

F-35 Lightning IIAn American military expert says the Tory government's planned purchase of 65 F-35 fighter jets comes with an unrealistically low price tag for a plane that he says will not meet the country's needs.

"You're getting an underperforming airplane for a huge amount of money," said Winslow T. Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project of the Centre for Defense Information in Washington D.C.

Winslow, who was in Ottawa Tuesday, at the invitation of the Rideau Institute and Physicians for Global Survival, said the estimated price of $75 million per plane is too low.

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