Ottawa has started to make payments for key components for 14 additional U.S.-built F-35s, even as the Carney government has been reviewing future fighter-jet purchases in the context of trade tensions with Washington, sources have told CBC News.
The money for these 14 aircraft is in addition to the contract for a first order of 16 F-35s, which will start being delivered to the Canadian Armed Forces at the end of the year.
According to sources, the new expenses are related to the purchase of so-called “long-lead items,” which are parts that must be ordered well in advance of the delivery of a fully assembled aircraft.
Canada had to make these expenditures to maintain its place in the long-term delivery schedule and avoid being replaced by other buyers in the queue, sources said.
They aren’t idiots. You don’t set up your entire military to be bricked by a hack.
Maybe they’re idiots, maybe they believe the US/Lockheed’s insistence that there isn’t any way to do it, maybe they’re traitors. Either way, yes, they are setting up their entire military to be bricked by a hack.
Sure buddy, everyone is stupid except you.
Thankfully, I am not the only person with a functioning model of reality. I don’t think everyone is stupid, I just think most people are brainwashed.