"Ian MacLure" wrote in message ...
(Charles Talleyrand) wrote in
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So, can Canada build a modern jet?

A military jet?

Sweden can, no reason why Canada couldn't.

In some real sense, Sweden is only building parts of a military jet and
buying some of the hard bits from the US. It's not obvious that
Sweden could build a modern high performance hard-to-jam
radar for instance.

The parts that concern me most after extensive (almost an hour :-)
research is Canada's ability to build a suitable radar and missile system.
I believe they could build the airframe and the jet engine.

The economics and politics of the matter are another
thing entirely.

Yep. Of course.