Comments by "Marten Trudeau" (@martentrudeau6948) on "Gripen Fighter Jet - Canada's Future Fighter?" video.

  1. The Gripen JAS-39 should be Canada's next aircraft for defense of the north half of North America. We are told that the F-35 is the greatest fighter ever, but a lot of people have questions about that, it hasn't proven itself yet, nor has the price been settle yet. The F-35 was designed to engage, shoot, and kill its enemy from long distances and not within visual range (WVR). It has never been dogfighter, the only way the F-35 could defeat other fighters was was to sneak up on them and take them by surprise like a sniper. Stealth is its advantage. For the money JAS-39 is the best fighter in the world. The US Navy has already developed technologies in the E-2 Hawkeye to track and target stealth fighters, bombers and missiles, this needs to continue so we can make stealth aircraft obsolete. Eliminating stealth aircraft would help tax payers and decrease the power of the military industrial corporations all over the world. Gripen JAS-39 would be great for defending the Canada.
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  2. I like the JAS-39 Gripen, it's a more modern design than the Super Hornet. I like your view point.
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  3. Liam, The Red Flag Exercise is sponsored USAF who are the people responsible for building the F-35. Can you trust anything they say? The F-35 is fat, it's slow and draggy, it cannot super cruise, the military may be saying it doesn't need to now, but before the F-35 super cruise was a big deal. Note that all these aircraft super cruise, Typhoon, Rafale, Su-35, F-22 Raptor, PAK-FA, F-15 Eagle and the Gripen JAS-39. The F-35 is not combat ready and won't be until they fix all it's known problems and as it's being made ready for combat they will find new problems. All these problems will have to be fixed on the existing aircraft at additional expense. The ALIS (Autonomic Logistics Information System) is not ready and is required to be for the F-35 to operate. The F-35 is the most advanced and automated fighter plane ever, it's optimized for stealth, uses artificial intelligence, autonomous programs, sensor fusion and a Helmet Mounted Display System to fight in a different type of warfare, not a conventional air war fighter. The F-35 has not proven it's self yet and the price is not set. Time well tell, but buying that plane is a gamble.
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