Avro Arrow redesign pitched as alternative to F-35 stealth fighter jets for Canada (soldiers, cost)

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OTTAWA — A Canadian company is seeking to go back in time to help fly Canada’s air force into the future.
Documents obtained by the Global News program “The West Block” indicate an update to the storied CF-105 Avro Arrow was put forward as an alternative to the purchase of F-35 stealth fighter jets.

And among the project’s champions is one of Canada’s top soldiers, retired Maj.Gen. Lewis MacKenzie.
The Arrow was an advanced, all-weather supersonic interceptor jet that was developed in the 1950s. Several prototypes were built and flight tests were conducted, but the project was abruptly shut down in 1959 and the aircraft never went into production.

But MacKenzie told the “The West Block” that the Arrow’s basic design and platform still exceed any current fighter jet and it is perfect for Canada’s needs.

What we need in Canada is something that can go to the edge of our airspace, from a sovereignty point of view, and be able to catch up with intruders.”

The plan to build an updated Arrow in Canada instead of buying into an international deal for a fleet of F-35s was originally put before the Harper Conservatives in 2010 by a company called Bourdeau Industries, which has offices in the U.K. and Canada.

“It’s an attack aircraft. It’s designed for attacking ground targets and its stealth is most effective against short range radar, protecting ground targets,” MacKenzie said.
The proposal, which was updated in 2012, suggested the plane could fly 20,000 feet higher than the F-35, soar twice as fast and would cost less.

For example, the proposal said that the total cost of the Arrow program would be $11.73 billion, compared to the $16-billion the federal government says the F-35 program will cost.

That figure has been disputed by the auditor general and parliamentary budget officer, who peg the true cost of the new stealth fighters at closer to $25-billion.
source: Avro Arrow redesign pitched as alternative to F-35 fighter jets | Canada | News | National Post

Well if you are Canadian you know what the CF-105 being built into production would be a something we waited 53 Years for and well I heard that they Govronment decided to not builfd the Cf-105 but atleast they could build 2 technolgy demondtrators so we could finaly have a Couple of Arrows to fly at Airshows and it find out just how it would of of been able to do with the Oreda Irqouis engines and the 1.5KT Air-Air AIR-2 Genie Rockets since

The Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1) was an unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. It was deployed by the United States Air Force (USAF 1957–1985) and Canada (Royal Canadian Air Force 1965–68, Air Command 1968–84) during the Cold War. Production ended in 1962 after over 3000 were produced.

LOL a modren version of the Cf-105 Avro arrow with Modren engines and carbon composite construction and al the advaced software and hardware in the F-35 along with 3D Thrust Vectoring nozzles and a reduced radar signature and advanced jamming capability and if it was built like a it were a modren cross between the upgrade that was suposed to happen on the F-14D Tomcats that got killed of due to politics just like the Arrow was and still function as a high speed high altitude long Range Intrecptor like the Mig-25.
I mean stil but the f-35 and maybe go for the F-15SE and be the first to order them in case the f-35 is scrapped and well the 10 prototypes that were built and smashed into pieces.

The CF-105 Avro Arrow - A Tribute - YouTube
I mean it is one of those things that we built that we never got to push it to it's limits and we ned to build a few working prototypes since it is such a major part of our history and would give closure to the the friday in 1959 were we smashed them to bits where the govronment forced the engineers and all the people that had built them to do it.