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In September 2017, the U.S. State Department granted Canada permission to buy 10 F/A-18Es and 8 F/A-18Fs (or EA-18Gs) along with supporting equipment, spares, and armaments; the agreed cost totaled CA$1.5 billion, or about CA$83.3 million per aircraft, adding the supporting equipment, training, spares, and weapons increased the acquisition cost ...
36 on order [1] - F/A-18 replacement Transport; Pilatus PC-6: Switzerland: utility / transport 14 [1] STOL capable aircraft Bombardier Challenger 600: Canada: VIP / MEDEVAC: CL604: 2 [1] Bombardier Global 7500: Canada: VIP: 1 [4] Dassault Falcon 900: France: VIP: 900EX: 1 [5] Cessna Citation Excel: United States: VIP: 560XL: 1 [6] Super King ...
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation). Designed by McDonnell Douglas and Northrop , the F/A-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy and ...
On 8 March 2024, Arcfield Canada was awarded a CA$211.6 million (US$157.3 million) sustainment contract to support and maintain the CF-18's avionics weapons systems, supply parts and provide end-to-end supply chain services with the contract being effective on 1 April 2024.
In September 2013, Boeing provided Canada with cost and capability data for its Advanced F/A-18 Super Hornet, suggesting that a fleet of 65 aircraft would cost $1.7 billion less than a fleet of F-35s. The Advanced Super Hornet builds upon the existing Super Hornet, which is derived from the F/A-18 Hornet and an improvement over the current ...
The AN/APG-79(V)4 has been selected for retrofitting the F/A-18C/D [5] and upgrading the fleets of F/A-18 fighters in Canada, [6] [7] Malaysia and the United States Marine Corps. The APG-79(V)4 is the first U.S. fighter radar to use gallium nitride (GaN) transmit/receive modules.
The New Fighter Aircraft Project (NFA) was a Government of Canada defence procurement project undertaken in the late 1970s that saw the Department of National Defence (DND) select a single new fighter jet to replace the fleets of CF-101 Voodoo, CF-104 Starfighter and CF-116 Freedom Fighter aircraft in the Canadian Forces.
The total cost of the F/A-18 program, including the aircraft, spare parts, other equipment and modifications to the RAAF's fighter bases, was calculated as A$2.427 billion in August 1981, but was rapidly revised upwards due to the depreciation of the Australian dollar at this time. [17] [19]