> Every air force in the world wants these expensive beasts, it's the entire identity of the service - TOP GUN knights of old jousting for supremacy.
I agree that these are shiny new tools for the airforce and its pilots. Here in Canada it has been a public shitstorm of rapidly increasing procurement costs and quality issues.
Canada has officially delayed purchasing F-35 for the foreseeable future:
A large part of the criticism was around whether a single engine jet was really appropriate for patrolling the Canadian Arctic. I imagine that rhetoric is going to get ramped up as reports of that single engine being unreliable surface.
I agree that these are shiny new tools for the airforce and its pilots. Here in Canada it has been a public shitstorm of rapidly increasing procurement costs and quality issues.
Canada has officially delayed purchasing F-35 for the foreseeable future:
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/f-35-faces-further-de...
It (the purchase of the F-35s) may still happen after the next election, but it isn't something the public wants.