US Defense Secretary Robert Gates came to Ottawa today and pleaded for Canada and the other eight "partner" nations not to walk away from the overhyped, overpriced and underperforming F-35 ground attack fighter.
Apparently stumped for sensible explanations, Gates tied the F-35 ground pounder to NORAD and North American air defence.
"It is a true fifth generation fighter, it will give us significant capabilities, it will continue the interoperability that has been at the heart of our NORAD relationship for decades now."
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Gullible neocon-reformatory asses at least.
plus, implicit in that 'continue the inter-operability we've had for decades' comment is the fact that we can be & long have been inter-operable without having the same types of planes as them. As the former Defense procurement ADM Alan Williams said on P&P about that: pretty much all we need to achieve that is 2-way radios tuned to the same frequency!
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