John Fedup
The Bunker Group
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The F-35 is the only option now. We don’t really know what GCAP or FCAS will actually be capable of. I have more faith in GCAP mainly due to Japan’s involvement. Japan needs GCAP asap. FCAS seems to be a slow motion project albeit information isn’t abundant on this side of the pond.GCAP will basically be a big bomb truck, it will have to carry the new MBDA TP-15 and from what I got reading government documents... Air superiority will not be a priority.
To be seen as a sort of new F-111.
Maybe FCAS could be more interesting for Canada, it will be smaller and more focused on air to air.
To be honest, and from someone who always supported autonomy from the US, the F-35 is really the best there is out there...