16 July 2010
Canada Selects Lockheed Martin F-35 for Next Gen Fighter
The Government of Canada announced plans to acquire the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II as the country’s next-generation fighter aircraft, replacing its fleet of CF-18 Hornets that entered service in the early 1980s.
Three F-35 variants derived from a common design, developed together and using the same sustainment infrastructure worldwide, will replace at least 13 types of aircraft for 11 nations initially, making the Lightning II the most cost-effective fighter program in history.
Lockheed Martin is developing the F-35 with its principal industrial partners, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. Two separate, interchangeable F-35 engines are under development: the Pratt & Whitney F135 and the GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team F136.
16 July 2010
Canada to spend $9B on F-35 fighter jets
16 July 2010
Aviation Week: Canada Commits To
JSF
First, some facts: The commitment will not be a
contract. Even under the most recent version of the production,
sustainment and follow-on development (PFSD) memorandum of
understanding, which pre-dates the slippage of the JSF development
program announced in March, Canada is not expected to sign a contract
for its first JSFs until 2014...
16 July 2010
Canada unveils order for Joint Strike Fighter
Canada on Friday unveiled a C$9bn contract to buy 65 F-35 Lightning fighter jets from Lockheed Martin as part of the US-led Joint Strike Fighter project. Canada is one of nine partners taking part in the JSF programme, which is expected to result in a total of about 3,000 orders, of which 2,500 would come from the US. The programme is the largest ever undertaken by the Pentagon and is considered crucial to Lockheed’s commercial future. Besides the US and Canada, the JSF partners are the UK, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Turkey...
Watch F-35 YouTube video (Hell's Bells)
YouTube video (by Chris Lally)
22 Aug 2009
DND to recommend sole-source aircraft purchase to replace Canada’s CF-18
15 June 2009
Rivals Hope JSF Costs Will Steer Canada Their Way
Lockheed
Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is facing competition from
European and U.S. aircraft manufacturers in the Canadian market, but
defense analysts say the domestic economic situation would have to
worsen to warrant selection of any of the aircraft's rivals...
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