The major difference that they don’t cover is that the F-35 is designed, built and controlled by the United States, an adversary of Canada, already at economic war with Canada and with a declared objective to annex Canada and make it the 51st state of the United states, while the Gripen is designed, built and controlled by Sweden, a long standing ally of Canada with no hostile declarations or actions.
The Gripen is not controlled by Sweden since they offer to form our technician
If you mean Sweden will transfer the technology to Canada so that Canada can have full and independent control of them and even maintain and build them entirely in Canada if they choose, then that’s even better.
Yah but Canada doesn’t like doing that and seems to prefer depending on other countries mainly America. I do not get how we have let ourselves become so dependent on them.
We need diplomats. Not death machines.
America has the strongest military and Canada and Greenland are on the chopping block.
Missile and drone program like Iran’s? Seems to work well enough against US air defences.
Cheaper and less training intensive!
We also have Ukrainian drone factories.
And are part of NATO. I think other members would side with Canada rather than the US if it came down to it.
And are part of NATO. I think other members would side with Canada rather than the US if it came down to it.
Honestly I wouldn’t count on NATO at all. At least not for actual milirary support even if they side with us. I think everyone realizes that going against the US in a hot war is likely some form of WWIII event and they’d rather throw this or that country under the bus.
Yep to kick the can down the road. Eventually in this scenario America well target them and be more “powerful” since you well have less allies and they well have to engage. Appeasement never works as the aggressor always wants more.
So… I don’t watch videos; anyone have a bulleted list?
The only ones I know about are the LM supply chain, US telematics control and US-centric command and control system on the F-35.
In essence, every F-35 sold is a part of the US Air Force one way or the other.
Gripen is more versatile for our north and for various mission types.
If equally skilled pilots faced off one-on-one, the F-35 would beat the Gripen.
The Gripen perks include supply chain and industrial benefits of making jets in Canada for other partners around the world, making it the better nation-building investment.
The F-35s are currently behind in production schedule to other international buyers, with no guaranteed deadlines, or that the contracted quantity and loadouts will be what actually gets delivered.
The Gripen is apparently quite a bit cheaper than the F-35, both in terms of what it costs to buy the plane and what it costs to keep it in the air.
Sure but are we going to pay another cancellation fee on the F-35s.
I’m sure there’s some government bean counter who is right now working on how long it will take the Gripens’ lower operational costs to earn back any F-35 cancellation fees.
