MSN on MSNOpinion
Canada doesn’t have to choose: Buy all 88 F-35s and add the JAS 39 Saab Gripen fighters
Mark Carney has been handed a genuinely hard problem, and folded inside it is an unusually clean solution, at least, that’s ...
National Security Journal on MSNOpinion
Canada says it’s reviewing its F-35 purchase to cut its dependence on America — but it just quietly paid for 14 more of the jets
​Canada and the F-35 Problem: Canada finds itself in quite a quandary. The country lies geographically above the United ...
Canada falling short on defense spending, F-35 review, Pentagon official says
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. decision to suspend planned biannual defense talks with Canada follows deepening concern that Ottawa is failing to take steps to become a ...
Pentagon doubles down on Canada rebuke with demand for NATO spending road map, F-35 decision
After publicly freezing a historic Canada-U.S. defence forum earlier this week, senior Pentagon officials sharpened their criticism Thursday, accusing Ottawa of failing to produce a credible NATO ...
the deep dive
Canada Explores 140-Jet Mixed Fleet of F-35s and Canadian Built Gripens
Canada is quietly sizing up a fighter fleet far larger than anything it has publicly committed to, potentially 140 aircraft, ...
Flightglobal
Former Canadian military officers urge Ottawa to ignore Gripens and proceed with F-35 buy
Twelve retired senior Royal Canadian Air Force officers have written to Prime Minister Mark Carney warning against reducing Canada’s planned 88-aircraft F-35A purchase in favour of Swedish Saab Gripen ...
The National Interest
F-35 or Gripen? Canada’s Fighter Jet Dilemma, Explained
Canada was long expected to buy the F-35 Lightning II to replace its aging CF-18 fighters—but political tensions with America, and a surprising offer from Sweden, have upended these assumptions.