The Soviets would have had a serious military presence on the Falklands. No invading if you have a regiment of MiG-23 and some thousands of Soviet Elite forces + SSN + Naval units in the area.

Yeah that’s great. We will buy a fighter that will be in US service for the next 20 years. But this next purchase will have to last us up to 40 years… Doesn’t make sense! This is the case for the F-35…. It will remain in service with multiple countries for the next 40 years or so. Giving us an aircraft that will remain current.

Well 20 years is a best case scenario, if the F-35C stay on time and on budget and the budgets remain as high as expected. Other scenarios see the Super Hornet in the fleet way past 2040.

The biggest problem is that when it is no VLO bomber EF would be fine, if it is a VLO bomber EF is still fine, as any chasing fighter will have to turn on the radar and search the bomber. On the other hand the are aspects in favour of Eufi (or Super Hornet) in that topic..
1. price
2. 2 engines – not the worst thing to have flying over the Canadian wilderness
3. speed
4. less RAM and RAM coatings to maintain

I would not say Eufi is best for Canada, as I think the Super hornet is, but both are better than F-35. Especially if you have a fixed budget and need a certain number of planes. That is the problem most F-35 customers are facing. Just ask the Netherlands how they will fulfil their NATO obligations with the number of F-35A they can buy from the given budget.

F-15 is a good choice. The USAF might be very happy in the future, to have a production line for Silent Eagles.

That’s nonsense for two reasons:
1.) Who is friend or foe can be defined by mission data, otherwise the track is classified as unknown and will be treated as hostile, but with lower priority than hostiles
2.) Friendly tracks can be nominated as targets, like unknown or hostile tracks but this has to be initiated by the pilot as the system won’t consider friendly tracks as targets when using PTA

Again. Typhoon detects Spectre and it is very likely that the used software standard classifies this as friendly emission. Friendly targets that are jamming against you, are something not foreseen in some software standards. The pilot can manually override the systems classification though. The question is if they did in that case. The simple logic behind this is to avoid blue-on-blue in environments with lots of electronic emissions. The French were very secretive about the data and afaik it was only handed it out for Lybia and there was a quick software up-date for Tiffies.

J-7 is bull****. More F-16 or FA-50s however would make sense.

It is very likely that Spectra and the low observable design of Rafale are too much for the old technology of CAPTOR. It is doubtful if there is any chance to correct this short coming with the dated technology used by CAPTOR. A working AESA might change this, but only Rafale has a working AESA – probably even increasing the superiority of Rafale.