Cost of F-35 advanced fighter jet program has risen by $8 billion in the last three years
The headline is sensationalized and misleading. The U.S. ambassador did not threaten to “send fighter jets into Canadian airspace” as a hostile or coercive act. What he actually said was:
If Canada backs out of or significantly reduces the F-35 purchase, the U.S. would need to adjust NORAD arrangements because Canada would no longer contribute equivalent capability to continental air defense. This could mean the U.S. buying additional F-35s to cover the gap and potentially conducting more routine patrols or intercepts in Canadian airspace to maintain the same level of shared security.
So they will send more jets into Canadian airspace?
“The art of the deal”
And what does that accomplish?
