▲ 471 ▼ US warns they will send fighter jets into Canadian airspace if F-35 deal doesn’t go through | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 6 months ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world 138 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago (2 children) Does Canada have the kind of military aerospace background to speedrun a program like that? Genuinely don't know. 60 years ago we did. The Avro Arrow program was unexpectedly killed just as production was getting read to ramp up. Why? Who the fuck knows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) We still do. That was a nascent effort, not some built up military industrial complex and it still exceeded all rivals at the time. Why? Being a supplicant to a bully. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* Do you think it could have been bribery? Lockheed and Boeing have a history of doing so, both legally and illegally. That time a porn-star 9/11'd a yakuza's kitchen was revenge for this. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) We still do. That was a nascent effort, not some built up military industrial complex and it still exceeded all rivals at the time. Why? Being a supplicant to a bully. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* Do you think it could have been bribery? Lockheed and Boeing have a history of doing so, both legally and illegally. That time a porn-star 9/11'd a yakuza's kitchen was revenge for this. permalink fedilink source parent