Canada Signed an Agreement to Buy 88 Lockheed Martin F-35A Fighter Jets Back in January 2023. Nearly 2 Years Into a Review Ordered by Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ottawa Is Committed to Only 16 of Them.

Canada Signed an Agreement to Buy 88 Lockheed Martin F-35A Fighter Jets Back in January 2023. Nearly 2 Years Into a Review Ordered by Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ottawa Is Committed to Only 16 of Them.

Months after Mark Carney ordered a review of Canada’s 88 F-35As, there is still no decision and no deadline. Ottawa is committed to just 16 jets, Saab is dangling Gripen E engine overhauls in Mississauga, and the procurement chief is a former CF-18 pilot who called the F-35 unaffordable.