F-35 is an ‘expensive mistake’ for Canada

The Council on Hemispheric Affairs doesn’t pull any punches in a new report about Canada’s membership in the F-35 club: It doesn’t belong, the study concludes.

In addition to the many questions about how much the CF-35 will ultimately cost — just like Washington, Ottawa has competing sets of numbers that come from different sides of the political spectrum — the Council’s study argues that Canada should wave off because it just doesn’t need the kind of capability the F-35 offers.

The Lightning II, as Buzz readers know, is designed to drop the first ordnance of the war or have the first dogfight — that’s why it needs to be stealthy, agile, networked, etc.

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