[QUOTE]er, why does canada need a advanced fighter ? Russia is hardly going to invade from the north.
One has to remember that a country’s history, politics and defence position is shaped by its geogrpahy. Take the battle of Britain. Britains best defence was that it was an island so Nazi germany could not use standard blitzkrieg shock assults as they did with adjoining countries like Poland, France and Russia.
New Zealand like Britain is an island nation. However, its nearest big neighbour is Australia, 1200miles / 2000km away. Potential adversaries are even further away so NZ’s decicion to disband its fast jet force makes some sense.
Canada is a different ball game to NZ. Firstly, as is pointed out, Canada is an active Partner in NATO and member of the UN. Now will you ssend your ground forces abroad to participate in a war zone relying ONLY on freindly US, British, French, Italian, Spanish, German or Australian aircover????
Not only this, but will Canada thus allow only US Alaskan based F-15’s and F-1s to defend its airspace? Surely its the duty of every country, yes even the Iraqi’s during OIF to defend its own airspace, even with just a handfull of fighters????!!
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