Ploughshares Monitor, September 1st, 2000
The Department of National Defence (DND) has begun a multiyear incremental program to modernize the Air Force fleet of CF-18 fighter aircraft. Unlike most other DND major capital projects, the modernization effort will be made up of several smaller programs, none of which is likely to attract media or public interest based on their cost alone. Yet the total modernization program budget of $1.2-billion, combined with additional programs to provide the aircraft with weapons and related equipment worth hundreds of millions, makes modernization of the CF-18 fleet one of the larger DND capital eq...
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