The Royal Canadian Air Force has launched the competition to replace its CF-18 fighter jets to date; this program defines the purchase of eighty-eight (88) fighters, with the first deliveries expected in 2025, at a cost of about $14bn.
During the evaluation of the participating fighters, the Royal Canadian Air Force will consider 60% of the capabilities of the candidate aircraft, 20% of their cost and 20% of the benefits to the Canadian Aviation Industry.
The three participating companies that will take part in this competition are American Boeing Co. with the Super Hornet Block III fighter and Lockheed Martin with the F-35 fighter as well as the Swedish Saab AB with the Gripen E fighter. The winner of the competition will be announced in 2022.
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We believe that it will not come as a surprise to choose the Swedish fighter of Saab AB (Gripen E), since the Swedish company has built this fighter to be durable and superior to the natural environment of Sweden which is almost the same as that of Canada.
In addition, this fighter is mainly designed as a “killer” of Russian fighters. Russian fighters likely to face the Royal Canadian Air Force in the future.
Melting ice at the North Pole due to global warming, and in particular the ice melting on Canada’s northern border sooner or later, will highlight areas that until now have been prohibitively accessible due to weather conditions by humans, enabling some countries to hope that they can now “invade” those territories.
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For this reason, the Canadian Military Authorities should consider such scenarios with the Royal Canadian Air Force being able to “cut off” the appetites of foreign countries to implement such scenarios.
At the same time, melting ice will bring out shorter sea-length trade routes than existing ones linking Europe with North America and East Asia. In such cases Canada should have at its disposal the appropriate fighter or appropriate fighters to adequately “control” these maritime trade routes.
Moreover, the new territories that are gradually emerging at the North Pole after the melting of the ice are rich in gas and oil which will bring out even greater competition between Russia and the West.
This competition mainly from Russia assisted by China against the West and Canada, which in this case Canada will be the West’s stronghold at the North Pole for control of these territories will be intensified in the coming decade.
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Melting ice at the North Pole and more generally in the northern hemisphere will reduce Canada’s deterrent power due to the natural-frozen environment that protects it, making the country more vulnerable to invasion by Russia on its northern border.
It is quite possible that the Royal Canadian Air Force will select two types of fighter aircraft and combine them. A fighter jet literally “killer” of Russian fighters that will require low maintenance costs per hour of flight with its production taking place in Canada and will be able to do the “dirty” job of daily policing of Canadian skies at low cost always adapted to the conditions of the North Pole and a second fighter aircraft that will act as a flying computer and direct the remaining fighter aircraft.
Canada is already participating in the development and construction program of one of the three prospective fighters, Lockheed Martin’s F-35. We believe that the opinions of the Royal Canadian Air Force on the decision to select the new fighter will be heard and that their opinion will not be taken over by overriding the political decision to select the new fighter.
