Develop F-35 alternatives or face consequences

Canada does not have several years to conduct an exhaustive fighter aircraft competition, but we can ask India for relevant data, send a team of pilots and flight engineers to the British and French training programs, as well as delve further into the familiar Super Hornet.

With the ongoing cost escalations and program delays, combined with a likely scathing report upcoming from the Auditor General, the federal Conservatives are finally toning down their cheerleading for the Joint Strike Fighter.

After years of spouting verbatim from Lockheed Martin’s glossy F-35 sales brochure, we are finally seeing cracks in Tory support for the very troubled stealth fighter project. A well-structured Plan B must be researched and initiated to ensure our future sovereignty.

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