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Definitely didn’t have that on my bingo card. “Trump kills military industrial complex”
News about the kill switch hidden in Chinese built electric buses must've been a wake-up call.
US military sales, by law, all have to have US controlled kill switches. This has been true since the 80s.
Sure which law?
c'mon Canada, you can do better than "a review"
Can you blame them? When the country that produces it elected someone so profoundly dumb, you need to be able to trust at that level.
If only we hadn't shit-canned the Arrow half a century ago.
The Arrow was just the 60s version of the F35. It was proper to cancel it. Tories killed off Avro because the US told them to. Then Mulroney killed off a lot of CDN industry, again, because the US told him to. Then Stephen Harper...you get the point.
I'm no expert, but I've heard that the reputation of the Arrow has been pumped up over the years. But we would have had our own military aeronautics industry in some way shape or form.
Really it's a moot point though. Drones do a lot of what jets used to do. We should take the money that would have been spent on those and use it to develop a homegrown drone industry right now.
I understand that, but the point is we could have had a home-grown aerospace industry a bit more robust than now. Some Arrow engineers ended up at NASA after all. And the engines!
Some Arrow engineers ended up at NASA after all.
The rest ended up at Lougheed and McDonnell Douglas. We pissed away 50,000 of the best engineers this country has ever seen, and all the spin off industries they would have developed. This was the beginning of the end for innovation in Ontario industry.
Just to give you an idea of how FUCKED our national priorities are: If we actually buy these lemons, it will cost more to just keep them unused in hangars per year than all the biomedical research in all diseases supported by federal grants.
The fact that we are wasting tens of billions on fighter jets with foreign controlled kill switches is just proof CAF spending has nothing to do with actual defence of Canada.
Smart. Those planes come with so many strings attached they may as well be fly-by-wire.
Fly by subscription.