Speechless Canadian F-35s

Canada plans to spend $9 billion to buy 65 F-35 stealth fighters built by Lockheed Martin, but Toronto's Globe and Mail reported Monday that the aircraft may not be able to communicate until 2019, three years after delivery of the first Canadian stealth fighter.

That's because there are few ground-based communications sites in the Great White North, which means the Canadian fighters will need to rely on communications satellites, but Lockheed may not get around to adding satcom software until 2019, the paper reported.

You'd think for $9 billion someone would figure out a way for the Canadian F-35s to at least say "Eh" when they are delivered.