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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Canada Cancels F-35 Purchase Due To High Life Cycle Costs

F-35 Lightning II |The Canadian Government has decided to drop the F-35 fighter aircraft contract after the auditor-general report projected life-cycle costs of the aircraft above $30 billion.

The operations committee of the federal Cabinet decided to scrap the controversial sole-source program and go back to the drawing board, a ministry official was quoted as saying.

This occurred after Chief of the Defence Staff Thomas Lawson, while en route overseas, was called back urgently to appear before the committee, the official added.

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