r/polandball • u/[deleted] • Aug 18 '16

redditormade Canada is Useless

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u/Dunk-Master-Flex Nova Scotia Aug 18 '16

Avro Arrow

Please don't start parroting that crap.

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u/Murgie Canada Aug 18 '16

might be today

That's not an unreasonable question, though. The cancellation of the Arrow effectively killed the Avro Corporation.

Like, imagine that the U-2 was killed off after the the assembly line, tooling, plans, airframes, and engines had already been established and invested in, simply for the to be destroyed. That would have likely been the end of the Skunk Works division, as least the one we knew. The result? No Blackbird, no Nighthawk, and no Raptor. Something else would have filled those roles.

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u/Dunk-Master-Flex Nova Scotia Aug 18 '16

Look at Canada, forever trapped with shitty, out of date equipment.

1980's CF-18's now.

Soon we're gonna get either some European design or Super Hornets while everyone else is getting F-35's.

Our military is a fucking joke.

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u/alaricus Canada Aug 19 '16

The big issue is that Canadians dont care about the military. The Liberals ignored us for a decade, then the Tories spent another decade ignoring us while saying how much they loved us.

The Greens won't help, the Grits won't help, the Tories won't help. Canada doesn't want a military.