Well, now that the squabbling has died down…
Personally I would prefer a MPA based on the Airbus/Bombardier C series.
The base package might then also interest Canada, which is also looking to replace its C-140 Auroras in the ASW/MPA role.
I believe they are looking for 14 aircraft.

Sure, but Leonardo DSR is headed up by the second highest ranking civilian in the Pentagon during the Obama administration.
I’m sure he knows the ins and outs of procurement ( and has contacts among Air Force brass ) as well, or better than LM or Boeing.

The T-100 in M346 guise, is already training pilots for the F-35s of Israel, Italy and the Dutch, along with its excellent CAE ground based emulators.

They will build a plant in Alabama for parts and final assembly, while the Boeing entry will have some parts and a section of the airframe built in Sweden ( not St Louis ).

It is a proven system with none of the unforeseen development headaches which may accompany the Boeing design and training system intergration.

And the CEO of KAI was arrested yesterday, I believe.

Couple this with the fact that D Trump is constantly stressing value for the money, and I think Leonardo’s chances are much better than 0.001%.

‘Bankrupt Eastern EU’ ??
I wonder how they got that way ?

Did it have anything to do with Russia’s raping and pillaging for over 40 yrs ?

Damn shame.
The Leonardo T-100 is a proven, advanced training system, and the US could do much worse than picking it as their new training system.
BUT, its not shiny and new like the Boeing, and, us being plane geeks, we all like new.

Incidentally, didn’t Boeing have an agreement with Alenia/aermacchi to market the M-346 about 10 yrs ago ?

Ground invasion, MSpere ?

I live in Canada, a separate continent having the longest unguarded border next door to the nation with the most powerful armed forces in the world, so I gotta ask…
What ground invasion !!!

We need an air force to intercept a few Russian bombers that wonder into our airspace, and for expeditionary peace keeping, almost always in support of the Americans.
Stop trying to make OUR requirements fit YOUR choice of combat aircraft !

It will be multi-role ( all the contenders with possible exception of Typhoon ), as large as we can afford in the required numbers ( Gripen is a little small ), and American ( so no Rafale either ). That leaves F-35 and SuperHornet ( which is at the end of its life in terms of further development ).

That leaves but one contender so the choice should be clear.
The fact that the government went with the 2nd best choice has to do with face saving politics, is all ( to get back on topic ).

You guys need a prescription for Ritalin to control your Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is a thread about the Canadian fighter replacement/procurement.

We have discussed the range of the Gripen, a plane which WILL NOT be acquired by Canada, until that discussion was split off.
We are now discussing the radar and engines of the Rafale, another plane which WILL NOT be acquired by Canada.

I suppose next week we’ll discuss the Typhoon.
And maybe a few Russian and Chinese contenders, which, and I repeat ( again ), WILL NOT be bought by Canada.

Busses are very simple.
Older style busses use a parallel configuration, so 1553 is equivalent to the older parallel ATA standard for personal computers.
Remember a few years back when your personal computer switched to SATA ? A serial, high speed communication standard which first doubled and then quadrupled the data rate ? All with similar error correction capability, parity checking and redundancy ?
That’s what the newer serial busses bring to the table.
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Canada has low educational standards JSR ?
We developed a world beating interceptor in the 50s, which was considered by the USAF and RAF, with engines that could take it to M2.5.
A lot of the engineers that worked on the Arrow went to work for NASA and the manned moon missions in the 60s after its politically motivated cancellation.
Most of the countries you mention that are high achievers can’t even build light planes yet. Even China has difficulty with 70s technology engines.

Incidentally I earned a BSc in Physics and Math ( probably the only person here who can explain GR and QFT to you ) through the Canadian education system ( except for grades 1-4 which I attended in Italy, my birth country ).
How about you ???