Canadian fighter jets heading to Libya

Toronto Sun ^ | March 17, 2011 | DAVID AKIN

[Always Independent]

I agree, the Canadians of all allies are usually the first to show up when the need arises. They definitely have what I call the Musketeer attitude. All For One and One For All!

[Husker24]

LOL, they put the cockpit on the wrong side. Must be hell on takeoffs...

Landings would be even scarier.

[Jet Jaguar]

F-15s and F-16s have tailhooks as well. Mainly used for emergency purposes such as brake failures.

[buccaneer81]

I didn’t know that. Thanks.

[I see my hands]

[SIDENET]

Canada operates 78 CF-18s and has 65 CF-35s on order. Canada bashing on FR gets real old, real fast.

I know what Canada has in its inventory.

I have thousands of hours of E-3 time flying with our Canadian NORAD brethren. Also have YEARS of ground time working with them.

It's not bashing. We (Canadian Forces and US) have a long history of joking with each other. Good-natured, joking, at that.

[buccaneer81]

Sorry for jumping on you. Sadly, there are a few FReepers who are real bashers.

[buccaneer81]

Those were Quebecois, not Canadians.

Big difference.

[SIDENET]

Sorry for jumping on you. Sadly, there are a few FReepers who are real bashers.

No worries.

I've seen some bashing on the forum, and it's definitely not cool.

[DTA]

Canadians are needed to terrorize Libyan population, like they did during Kosovo war. USAF was smart enough to leave dirtiest bombing runs to Canucks. And RCAF even boasted about it, like dropping gravitational bombs through the cloud cover into densely populated areas. A war crime by any measure, except liberal "humaneatarian" one.

[GeronL]

Upon closer inspection its not a cockpit but it sure looks like one with a glance. heh

[Melissa 24]

Hear hear!

[caww]

Well over 300 million a week was projected to do this NFZ....I suspect they will determine re-payment from Libya Oil once up and going ...but we already know how that works from Iraq.

[MaxMax]

I've done a few bad carrier landings in Warbirds, the wrong way! LOL

[I see my hands]

[saltus]

“Since when do you need a diplomatic clearance to wage war?”

The UN Charter. All of our NATO allies in Europe are signatories. As well as our SEATO allies in Asia and the Pacific.

Do you prefer having American men and women paying a price as “policemen of the world”?

We should applaud other nations taking on some of the burden—and the expenses to our taxes.

[MaxMax]

That would be the British folk, they "for some odd reason"
drive on the wrong side of the road.

[buccaneer81]

No, Quebec can go to hell. They are not Canada.

[Yo-Yo]

Why does an F-15 have a tailhook? ;)

For the same reason why F-16s have an arrestor hook. ;^)