Canadian Defense Department’s research arm, Defence Research and Development Canada, predicted in 2011 that the RCAF would have almost certainly lost several F-35s before all 65 were even delivered.
The report stated “that the probability of having 63 or more (F-35s) remaining at this time (when the last one is delivered) is approximately 54 per cent.”
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