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Canada’s CF-18 Hornet Fighter Crisis

Canada’s Air Force is running out of runway. Aging CF-18s are costly to keep flightworthy, readiness is sliding amid pilot ...
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Canada’s Big CF-18 Hornet Fighter Mistake Still Stings

Canada’s CF-18 Hornet, a 1980s-era jet, is “obsolete,” “insufficient” for a modern NATO conflict, and “dangerous” to its own pilots. -Despite a 9-year upgrade program to fix avionics and “not ...
The CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Team and the F/A-18 Swiss Hornet Solo Display will not fly for the 2025 airshow season to focus resources on modernization and training. The Royal Canadian Air Force and ...
To maintain a reliable deterrent against the Soviets in the Cold War, the Canadians routinely purchased weapons and other systems from their American partners. Some were phenomenal hits, such as the ...
Canada’s experience with the CF-5 is a warning to the United States about what happens when pinching pennies in the defense budget takes precedence over strategic sense. The Canadian government ...
The Royal Canadian Air Force will conduct flypasts for several Remembrance Day commemorations across Canada on November 11. These will be carried out ...
OTTAWA, June 10 (Reuters) - Canada's planned purchase of 88 Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), opens new tab F-35 fighters will cost at least 45% more than initially estimated and the project is also threatened ...