Canada, you have my sympathy

[thewayne]

It was just announced that Canada is going to buy 65 F-35 fighters.

Where does this fail me? Let me count the ways. The biggest mistake was that the Pentagon bought in to the defense industry saying that 'this plane can do everything! Air superiority! Low-level bombing! Launch from carriers! Hover like a Harrier! And STEALTH!' Well, the problem is that if it can do everything, it'll do nothing well.

The problems have been numerous, up to the point of building actual planes before the designs were finalized, requiring those units to go back to the factory for massive refits. It's been unreliable, requires massive maintenance hours per flight hours, and is basically a total POS. Countries around the world have cancelled orders, and the fiscally-conservative government of Canada is going to drop $9 billion Canadian on it.

My sincerest condolences at your loss of sanity.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKBN0EG2P820140605?sp=true

Comments

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

Idiotic Canadian governments spending money we don't have on crap military gear is, unfortunately, a tradition. It's worse now because our pathetic prime minister has delusions of turning Canada into a second United States.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I don't remember if it was the F-22 or the F-35, they're both stealth and they're both failures. But one of them can't fly in the rain because the stealth tech doesn't work when it's wet.

Amazing what they can do now days.

[silveradept]

Nothing says "trying to busy up to the neighbor" than spending your money on their junk.