Brazil continues its seemingly never-ending, three-way competition for the 36-aircraft F-X2 contract. India, meanwhile, is evaluating six different candidates for the 126-aircraft medium multi-role combat aircraft. Several European countries -- including Switzerland and Denmark -- are nearing fighter contract decisions. And Asian countries including South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore also looking at the export market to buy new fighters. In the middle east, Iraq, Oman and Qatar want to upgrade their fighter fleets, while the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia also seem to be ever-on-the-verge of buying new Rafales and F-15s, respectively.
In the midst of all this fighter market activity, the Ottawa Citizen's David Pugliese reports today on the next big fighter contract battlefront. Canada is gearing up to buy at least 65 fighters by 2015. But, as Pugliese says on his Defence Watch blog, Ottawa may not be in such a rush to replace the CF-18. Nor, Pugliese writes, is the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter necessarily a shoo-in for the contract, as I noted on my visit to Ottawa last May.
In the midst of all this fighter market activity, the Ottawa Citizen's David Pugliese reports today on the next big fighter contract battlefront. Canada is gearing up to buy at least 65 fighters by 2015. But, as Pugliese says on his Defence Watch blog, Ottawa may not be in such a rush to replace the CF-18. Nor, Pugliese writes, is the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter necessarily a shoo-in for the contract, as I noted on my visit to Ottawa last May.
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