According to Canada’s National Post, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet has decided that buying an interim fleet of Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets is the way to go while procrastinating on how to proceed with the new fighter competition.
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A source was quoted as saying that the decision has been made and officials are putting together a “right narrative to support it.”
Boeing offered us the same deal that McDonnel Douglas had, were we could build our own airframes and avonics, I think it was a licensed deal, they offered us this, and we turned it down.
I almost want the US to absorb us