National Defence committee  That is for the planes, initial logistics included, repair kits, and so on, for the first few years. I should answer in French, but it's not my forte.

National Defence committee  It is included in the initial logistics support. The life cycle costs will be, I think, about—this is not public yet, so I have to be careful—$40 billion U.S. over 30 years. So that's life cycle costs over 30 years, all included.

National Defence committee  If I understand you correctly, you're asking about communication north of the Arctic Circle with the F-35. First of all, we're operating our F-16s north of the Arctic Circle today with the same communication system that you will have in the F-35. That is unproblematic; it works.

National Defence committee  It will have a sensor system for what is called network-centric warfare and will be able to communicate. They will all have the same sensors. They can exchange data and so on. That's what's important. I think we saw that in Libya, too. Although you are flying the F-18s and we are

National Defence committee  We did a down-select comparing the French Rafale, the Eurofighter, the Swedish JAS Gripen, and the F-35. On all of the criteria, the F-35 came out as the best. As the state secretary said when it comes to fifth-generation, we see that the nations with the ambition and the money b