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What Would It Take for Canada to Build Its Own Fighter Jets Again?

What Would It Take for Canada to Build Its Own Fighter Jets Again? | The Walrus

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The future is in drones. If Canada should sink funding into anything, it should be that.
- Until someone comes up with a very compelling anti-drone countermeasure, drones are basically the ideal weapon for a battlefield. Cheap, mobile, can loiter, good recon, etc.
Drones are the future, fuck building fighters or bombers.
- Drones can't defend the Arctic. In fact they'd be fairly useless to most of Canada that doesn't sit within the 49th-50th parallel.
  
  You know you can launch satilites that cover the arctic right? Or you making some claim about the cold and the batteries.
The real concern is not “which aircraft to buy” — its “in 20 years will Canada be able to even arm itself in a world of disrupted supply chains?”
Agreed that drones are tactically important, but tanks and fighters ships are strategically important, and will never go out of style.
It would take billions of tax payer dollars and decades

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