Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

The other thing I think we need to think about is in our military cooperation with the United States.

We will still cooperate with the United States, but I think we have to start thinking as Partnering.integrated. And so things like the decisions around the F-35 contracts, etc.

I think that, again, those kind of things are going to change radically, which has huge implications for our industrial policy in Canada.

Greg, I appreciate the check-in today.

Like, I mean, all Finns just love this news, probably.

I'm speaking for all Finns here now because it's just like so... kind of funny in a way also historically because like back in the wars when we needed them the Swedes didn't come or it was only volunteers which was really appreciated but like official Sweden stayed out of the wars when Finland had hoped that Sweden might side with us so it feels like Finnish social media was kind of noticing this historical analogy and like welcoming back the Swedish air force like there was a voluntary voluntary sort of squadron of the Swedish air force that took care of the air space of Lapland in the second world war and such so this is great news of course there's also the downside to this that there's been a lot of speculation in Finnish media whether this sort of hints at Finnish own capacity not being sufficient now that the defense forces basically have to be in high readiness all the time And then because there's a number of big projects going on, like the F-35 integration and then also in the Navy, a new Bohemian class ships and so on.

So these are all very training intensive projects.

things and the professional part of the Finnish Defence Forces is pretty small although we have a very large reserve force so but I just like definitely take this as something to be mildly happy about because it's it's nice that we will see also Swedes patrolling Finnish skies so more of this for me thank you Fabian

American air defenses fired more than 30 Patriot interceptor missiles defending the base during the barrage.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for the attack and said it had targeted maintenance and repair hangars along with shelters housing F-35, F-16, and F-15 aircraft, describing the results as heavy damage.

That characterization goes beyond what American sources have confirmed, and it should be treated as Iran's own account pending further verification.

Jordan's own armed forces said their air defenses intercepted 18 of 20 ballistic missiles fired toward Jordanian territory that night, with the remaining two landing in unpopulated areas and no casualties recorded.

John Tremblay.

I wonder if that is John Tremblay, the F35 instructor.

Interesting.

Huck Fillory.

I don't think it's the graphics cards.

I think it's like the remote-controlled F-35s with nuclear capability.

Here's what I've learned, right,

Chris? Here's what I've started to do some research on.

So people are now calling for the UK government to recognise Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide.

They're calling for a full arms embargo, including F-35 components, which are still being made and given to Israel, and to hold a public inquiry into British complicity.

So there are still steps to be taken.

I mean, it's definitely a strong message, but there's something actually with regards to products from Israeli settlements.

Yeah, there's going to be a lot that's happening between now and then.

There's ongoing contracts, like we mentioned.

I think people have a lot of mistrust in the UK government because they said that they were going to stop trade arms licenses with Israel, but then we have the F-35 components being made and sent.

We also have the issue of things not being labeled properly in stores so people don't really know.

So, you know, back in Vietnam, they said, oh, the gun, we don't need guns anymore on airplanes because we've got missiles.

Well, now that we can defeat missiles with a host of different technologies, we'll put the gun back on the F-35.

You know, balloons were thought to be dumb, but balloons are coming back because now nothing can reach up and touch them.

So you're constantly going back and forth.

But what do these companies do? Are the top investors of pretty much everything in the world, from banks to pharmaceutical companies to media outlets? And more importantly, are they heavily involved in the arms industry, investing in dozens of companies that help fund the IOF? These companies include Boeing, RTX, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin.

Using Lockheed Martin as an example, they alone generated $4 billion in a collaboration with the Blue and White States, supplying them with things like F-35 jets, rockets, radars, lasers, and other military equipment.

And these military contractors speak candidly about how this war is good for business.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is one of the richest people in the world, and this might come as a surprise, but likely does not give a damn about makeup.

It's like you've got the NSA with, up until recently, the world's largest supercomputers and the best decryption and all of that.

We're working with defense contractors to build something like the F-35, which is just a technological miracle.

And then on the other hand, the F-35 was years late and over budget.

And so it's sort of a strange mix of strengths and weaknesses.

I mean, when you were a senior official in the service, did you spend a lot of time talking about and trying to understand technology? And is that an increasing part of the job of sort of being in touch with the private sector, keeping abreast of technological change?