Saab Will Establish a Gripen Production Center in Canada If the Country Chooses Swedish Fighter Jets

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Sunshine@piefed.ca · 19 pts · 2d (1 reply)

C’mon war time leader Mark Carney. We need to defend our borders 🇨🇦🇸🇪

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 1d

Sure, defund health care, schools to pay for war toys to become the country we are defending from.

25, 250, 2500 fighter jets won't make any real difference. It's delusional.

lime@feddit.nu · 13 pts · 2d

i think this is pretty much standard procedure, brazil also has a huge facility.

YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2d

Do it!

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2d
  • that would be strategically extremely advantageous - for Sweden as well, since I’m sure they’d be interested to see what crazy adaptations the Canucks come up with, and perhaps adapt into subsequent flights as fully supported options or standard features
  • another thumb in the eye of the Orange Regime, because afaik local production was never on the table
  • also, very prudent because who the fuck knows what the regime (or whatever comes after) is gonna try to pull vis a vis expansionism to distract from things being increasingly awful at home
  • more investment in rebuilding the Canadian aerospace industry, which was more or less unceremoniously killed by the US as a result of Cold War defense politics and defense-industrial fuckery
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · -2 pts · 2d (2 replies)

You will need a Tom Cruise, Canada

Murse@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1d

Canada does NOT need any scientologists.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d

We have plenty of people working in candy factories to pack fudge.