The National Security & Defence committee isn't a fan of Trudeau's Super Hornet purchase plan

The Canadian Senate’s Committee on National Security and Defence has urged the Trudeau government to nix plans to buy the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet as a replacement for the CF-188 Hornetsthe Royal Canadian Air Force currently flies. The Committee, composed of independent, Conservative and Liberal Party senators, recently released its latest report on Canadian defense issues, Reinvesting in…

In a move congruent to what Australia did some years back with the purchase of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, Canada will buy 18 units of the same aircraft to function as a stopgap measure of sorts for its fighter fleet of CF-188 Hornets, which is at the end of its originally projected lifespan. 

The move is both surprising and unsurprising at the same time. The National Post had already reported a far…

Canada might have already chosen the Super Hornet before its fighter competition even began.

According to The National Post, the Canadian government has apparently already made an unofficial decision to buy the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to replace Canada’s CF-188 (Legacy) Hornet fleet en masse. This comes after a campaign promise in late 2015by then-prime ministerial candidate Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party to not buy the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II, as the RCAF had…