Canada's fighter fiasco! Report slams F-35 on cost grounds - Government to re-evaluate options

摘要

CANADA'S GOVERNMENT is set to re-start its fighter programme that will replace its ageing CF-188s. Newspaper reports on 6 December first indicated that a forthcoming audit by KPMG had estimated that the total projected life-cycle cost of Canada's planned procurement of 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 As was now in excess of $30 billion. In reality, it was worse, with the estimate now put at $45.8 billion over a 42-year service life.