Someone should send a this in a memo to Harper.

[Swede]

Before he sells our CF-18s for a song.

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Once slated for replacement, the jet now is in high demand from the Pentagon and foreign governments looking to upgrade their arsenals. The Northrop plant has a backlog that will take at least until 2014 to finish.


The boon for Northrop's 1,100 F/A-18 workers in El Segundo — and the more than 700 parts suppliers in California — is the byproduct of an embarrassment for the Pentagon. By now, the military had hoped to start phasing out the F/A-18 and begin flying the radar-evading F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But production on the next-generation jet is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fighter-jet-20110204,0,2947856.story