Senior Royal Canadian Air Force and defence ministry officials have voiced support for Canada's planned F-35 acquisition, ...
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Canada Is All In on F-35 Stealth Fighter (For Now)

Canada is quietly doing the hard work to field F-35s—buildings, simulators, and training—despite withholding a final commitment to all 88 jets. -Canada is legally on the hook for 16 aircraft, with ...
Exercise marks a key milestone in NATO’s efforts to boost allied air forces’ ability to operate under hostile conditions ...
A new academic paper found that the F-35 jets require significant support equipment, with problems getting spare parts and ...
Rising trade tensions with the U.S., along with questions about Canada’s sovereignty, initiated a review of the purchase of F ...
After Prime Minister Mark Carney declined to explicitly oppose buying the F-35s, the Department of National Defence has cautiously moved forward with the purchase.
China sent fighter jets to intercept a Canadian air force plane tracking North Korean ships breaching U.N. sanctions.
Officially, at least, Canada is still considering whether to buy more F-35s, but arguments for a mixed fighter fleet are becoming harder to justify.
Chinese fighter jets intercepted a Canadian CP-140 Aurora aircraft over the East China Sea during Operation NEON, monitoring North Korean ships suspected of sanctions violations. The crew reported ...
Training events like these give pilots, maintainers, and commanders the necessary skills and confidence to conduct effective ACE operations.
A Canadian maritime patrol aircraft patrolling the East China Sea was intercepted on "multiple occasions" by China’s military, it has been reported. CBS News said the Canadian CP-140 Aurora—a maritime ...