Airbus explores building a Canadian helicopter assembly plant if selected for federal defense contracts including the C$18.4B nTACS fleet renewal program.
Why is this in buyeuropean?
Who in here is buying military helicopters? And would you be willing to let me borrow it for a weekend?
Because you have two main civilian airplane manufacturers. Boeing and Airbus. One of those is from statesia, I’ll let you guess where the other is from.
Yeah, but like I said, who in this community has enough cash and the permit to buy a military aircraft?
The Canadian state, proudly represented here by few Canadian lemmings. ;)
Permit? Give me a week. Cash? Also give me a week I have some airplane buddies who would love an older gripen
Win win situation, isn’t it?
$18.4B for 100 jobs, or less. What a deal.
It’s also about knowledge/technology transfer.
EDIT: (and a whole bunch of military vehicles)
Plus, the helicopters would be purchased anyway so the benefits of the plant here are a bonus/added benefit.
18bn to Europe or 18bn to America(and no jobs).
At least Airbus probably won’t have a Trump switch on them to cut the power.
