To further compound that lie Stephen Harper once again lied telling Canadians that the purchase was under review and a study was in progress to determine if the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was the best casket taxpayer money could buy for Canadian fighter pilots.
When the Pentagon outed him as his party of liars, he once again lied saying no decision had been made. Then a few days later his incompetent lying Minister of Defense tells Canadians that they have purchased just four of these overpriced caskets.
So, here we are buying a troubled aircraft to replace an aircraft that has served our forces admirably but the caskets guns won't be usable until 2019 or later....
$1.5 Trillion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Can't Fire Its Own Gun Until 2019
he Pentagon’s newest stealth jet, the nearly $400 billion Joint Strike Fighter, won’t be able to fire its gun during operational missions until 2019, three to four years after it becomes operational.
Even though the Joint Strike Fighter, or F-35, is supposed to join frontline U.S. Marine Corps fighter squadrons next year and Air Force units in 2016, the jet’s software does not yet have the ability to shoot its 25mm cannon. But even when the jet will be able to shoot its gun, the F-35 barely carries enough ammunition to make the weapon useful.
The JSF won’t be completely unarmed. It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs. Initially, it will be able to carry 1,000-pound satellite-guided bombs or 500-pound laser-guided weapons. But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.
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