Canada vote 2011
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^ I don't want a "something is better than nothing" solution.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/t…
OTTAWA — An American military expert says the Tory government's planned purchase of 65 F-35 fighter jets comes with an unrealistically low price tag for a plane that he says will not meet the country's needs.
"You're getting an underperforming airplane for a huge amount of money," said Winslow T. Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project of the Centre for Defense Information in Washington D.C.
Winslow, who was in Ottawa Tuesday, at the invitation of the Rideau Institute and Physicians for Global Survival, said the estimated price of $75 million per plane is too low.
"Nobody on this Earth is going to be buying F-35's in flyable condition at $75 million a copy. That's not in the cards," he said.
Winslow said $75 million may be the base price for the aircraft, but not the price to make it operable. In fact, he said that the government's estimate may not even include the engines.