Defence officials are playing down any significant impact from the latest delay, which has left the first new search-and-rescue plane built by Airbus stranded in Spain.
Defence Department spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande says a recent analysis concluded the military has enough flexibility with its fleets to handle the delay. Those fleets include six Buffalo aircraft and seven of the military's older Hercules planes, all of which are around 50 years old and scheduled for retirement.
Lamirande says the military hopes to receive the new plane in the fall, which would be nearly a year later than originally planned. The federal government first started looking at buying new search-and-rescue planes in 2002 before finally tapping Airbus to build 16 new C295Ws for $2.4 billion in 2016.
Wait. Why don’t we buy outdated, mothballed stuff from our allies? I mean, that’s worked before, right?
That’s the Canadian way
We should try to get our military budget back from Somalia, so our soldiers don’t worry about crashing every time they fly this piece of junk.
as long as they don't cause more harm than good like the one on BC ...
You mean all those $'s boy justin gave to the WHO and to foreign governments force the military to fly old rescue planes.
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