XPost: can.politics   
   From: trans@for.mer   
      
   On 9/10/2017 5:58 PM, Dave Smith wrote:   
   > On 2017-09-10 11:02 AM, Optimus Prime wrote:   
   >> On 9/8/2017 6:43 PM, Alan Baker wrote:   
   >>>> What killed the Arrow was the development of the ICBM ... the Arrow   
   >>>> was designed to kill Russian bombers that weren't going to be coming   
   >>>> anymore.   
   >>>   
   >>> If that were the case, then  2 years later, Canada wouldn't have had   
   >>> to turn around and buy McDonnell; an aircraft distinctly inferior to   
   >>> the Arrow.   
   >>>   
   >>> Nor would there have been all the interceptor/fighter aircraft that   
   >>> followed.   
   >>>   
   >>> The bombers continued to exist and the need to intercept them with   
   >>> manned aircraft continues to this day.   
   >>>   
   >>> We had an aircraft whose performance wouldn't be surpassed until the   
   >>> F15 Eagle, and we spent billions buying aircraft from other countries   
   >>> when we could have had our own aerospace industry.   
   >>   
   >> Butt of course it is ALL America's fault, right????   
   >>   
   >   
   > It is not the fault of the US that our prime minister was determined to   
   > sabotage the previous Liberal government's program, or that he got   
   > sucked in a deal with the US that we abandon a program that would have   
   > left their state of the art aircraft sucking fumes and replacing it with   
   > a useless American made missile system and obsolete American made   
   > interceptors. It is not their fault that our government decided that the   
   > Arrow was too expensive and no longer relevant in the ICBM era, but at   
   > the same time paid a bundle for lesser aircraft to keep doing the job   
   > they had said was no longer needed.   
   >   
      
   Lol, cry me a river!   
      
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