Joint Strike Fighter

A search for coherence at the closing of the year

John Geddes explains why rebooting the plan is not as easy as pressing a button

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It would be difficult to imagine a more thoroughly botched military procurement program than the F-35 fiasco that has been taken apart today in a report from Michael Ferguson, the Auditor General of Canada.

Julian Fantino, the associate minister of defence, responding this afternoon to questions from the NDP.

Why will Canada’s jets cost less than Washington’s estimates?

David Pugliese looks at the campaign to sell the F-35 purchase.

While two former members of the Canadian military defend the purchase of new F-35s, an American military analyst questions the cost.

The Prime Minister defends the government’s purchase of fighter jets.

While the American joint strike fighter program continues to be a source of questions, Philippe Lagassé and Justin Massie figure we’ll end up buying the planes one way or the other.

David Pugliese’s three-part series on the proposed purchase of 65 F-35s—see here, here and here—is an altogether epic tale of confusion, misdirection and the unexplained.