Jim Jazz said: "In terms of Arctic sovereignty, solid arguments have been made that this is not a solution to that at all. Russian fighters are well suited to take these things out of the sky"
I respect what you are saying Jim.
The Russians test-flew their tier 45 Jet the Sukoi-SU 35.jet this March. There are 3 of them. 2 never fly. They are 10 years away from production. The Mig 35 is being co-produced with India.
Canada wouldn't and probably couldn't buy the Russian planes. And, since they haven't been flying them since 2006, their stats are hard to verify. Some criticisms have been that while the stats on paper are pretty good--faster than the F-35, the soviets lag so far behind on their avionics they are really 4th gen. Just the difference in flyability gives the F-35 a huge advantage.
Canadian pilots flying the hornets are saying in wargames, its like flying into a wall. There is just no contest. So advanced are these technologies, there is nothing that can touch it. However, that said a 30-40 year life span will mean eventually others will be building something truely comparable.
I would like to see us get a handful of F-22s... but that is another story. 64 planes are really not that many when you think of Canada's size. Considering Canada is 1/10th the US by many metrics, we should be buying 200.
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