• BeBopALouie@lemmy.caOP
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    2 days ago

    What the fuck? Since when are buying this shit from them?

    “Hoekstra announced Canada will be receiving its first F-35s on Oct. 14 at the Luke Air Force Base in Phoenix, Ariz. — a massive F-35 training facility. It’s the first time that date has been revealed publicly. Canada is contractually committed to buying at least 16 of the aircraft.”

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      There was this whole thing several years back where the air force put out “bids” to the one company to update our fleet of jets. The order has been cut down to I believe only these 16 jets and than changed to substantially more griphens