'no pilot also means that the only
g limits will be those of the airframe'
Lockheed Martin can't share any F-35 tech
and if our government declines the F-35
acquisition there is little reason to believe
they would move production away from
a country with a weak currency just to be
punitive. They aren't in a strong enough
position given the still growing number of
setbacks the F-35 is facing.
Procurement and innovation are always
going to have a high base cost but this
writer hopes that after reading the above,
people have a better understanding of
how much deeper the process goes and
how if done properly, procurement can
create jobs, reduce cost through offsets
and create new opportunities well into
the future.
Crawford Gordon Junior of A.V Roe
Canada (Avro) and his team are an ex-
ample of people who think far into the fu-
ture. C.D. Howe, Louis St. Laurent and
John Diefenbaker are examples of people
who think only of the present when pre-
dicting the future. The first gave Canada
two of the greatest innovations of their
time. The second group cancelled those
aspirations in favour of short-term budget
outlooks. An inability to see past the pres-
ent when determining the future and have
cost us billions of dollars since.
It's the 1950's all over again in a way.
Only this time Canadians have the benefit
of seeing the long term cost of short term
thinking. Canada may not be able to cre-
ate its own answer from the ground up like
Avro did but it is certainly able to position
itself to be a key contributor and manufac-
turer of UCAV's and reap the benefits with
minimal cost.
Some see doom in our economy but this
writer sees many opportunities. Hopefully
some of the people reading this see it now
too or feel more confident in it.
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