If one were inclined to believe this before this note, they probably will continue to believe it afterward-despite it's paucity of truth. It is the ignorant manipulating the ignorance of people who want to perpetuate their ignorance rather than be able to consider the facts from a neutral, rational space.

Good points in reply. If you believe you are in a 3rd world country, and you live in Canada, then you have a profound astigmatism.

It is true that R&D in Canada could be much better. However, to build a Gen 5 air-force, the starting price is around 500 BILLION. Few single countries in the world can afford that, China being the notable elephant in the room. So, NATO thought it might be a good idea to cooperate on building one...what a concept! Canada's 60 planes and what ever we spend to acquire them is a blip in comparison to the 2500 planes the US will acquire. Silly Canada. We have so much, but are compromised by our small thinking.

 The facts: The F-22 has the radar profile of a speeding marble. The F-35 has a profile of a speeding baseball--"speeding" faster than the speed of sound. Good luck. Learn from Baghdad and Tripoli. The stealth bombers came first and took out the air-defense. Come on people wakey wakey!

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Peorhum

12:08 PM on May 6, 2012

Well it is the JSF-joint strike fighter...it was meant to back up, to a point, the F22 which was going to be doing the air combat role while the F35 does the strike roles. The F35 is about being a bomb truck with some air defence capability. It is designed to replace bomb trucks flown by the US air force, US navy, US marines. It is designed to replace the Harrier mainly with a supersonic Vtol aircraft. So yes your right, the F35 even though it can do air defence, it isn't truly meant for that role.

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Mikey from the GWN

1:02 PM on May 6, 2012

It's a multi-role fighter just like the CF-18s it may replace

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Alethia

2:16 PM on May 6, 2012

Actually, it is a 30-50 mile tactical range. Russia does have a missile capable of 86 mile range, so the NATO strategy is to be able to deploy a fighter that can "fight from the inside" get close enough to be effective with shorter air-to-air missiles. If Russia is able to resolve and target a speeding baseball 1.2 times the speed of sound, then we would be in trouble...

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