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The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

We are a tier three partner and the last to order. Everyone else assumed some burden of the production costs by buying aircraft earlier at higher costs and having to deal with the cost of modernization. A day late a dollar short and forgot the cheque book at home

US
Tier 1
UK 2008
Tier 2
Italy 2012
Dutch 2008
Tier 3
Norway 2013
Australia 2012
Denmark 2016
Canada 2023
Turkey
 
We are a tier three partner and the last to order. Everyone else assumed some burden of the production costs by buying aircraft earlier at higher costs and having to deal with the cost of modernization. A day late a dollar short and forgot the cheque book at home

US
Tier 1
UK 2008
Tier 2
Italy 2012
Dutch 2008
Tier 3
Norway 2013
Australia 2012
Denmark 2016
Canada 2023
Turkey
Like the guy at the bar who always disappears when its his round.....
 
We are a tier three partner and the last to order. Everyone else assumed some burden of the production costs by buying aircraft earlier at higher costs and having to deal with the cost of modernization. A day late a dollar short and forgot the cheque book at home

US
Tier 1
UK 2008
Tier 2
Italy 2012
Dutch 2008
Tier 3
Norway 2013
Australia 2012
Denmark 2016
Canada 2023
Turkey
Honest question: Was joining the JSF project incumbent on actually buying any of the aircraft?

Because Canada (specifically Boeing in Winnipeg, P&W, etc) was in the project from the beginning.
 
Honest question: Was joining the JSF project incumbent on actually buying any of the aircraft?

Because Canada (specifically Boeing in Winnipeg, P&W, etc) was in the project from the beginning.
No, at least not for the original initial MOU signed in 1997. The second phase MOU in 2006 for continuing into the Production, Sustainment and Follow-on Development portion of the program included requirements that all participating nations to agree to waive any own-nation industrial offsets. If they wanted to apply national offsets, they would have to leave the program and their respective industries receiving contracts from the program would be removed from the programs as a supplier. The program clause that comes closest to, but not quite explicitly a ‘no buy, get no more contracts’ condition, is the ‘best value’ condition that is determined by the program itself, which is weighed in proportion to the respective nations’ commitments to procure the aircraft, ie. No commitment to buy, then less influence in determining if your own nation’s supplier represents the best value to all members of the program.
 
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