New Chief of Defense Staff Prioritizes to Replace CF-18 Fleet

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The fresh appointee of Canadian military’s top office has claimed that the decision of replacing the Canadian Forces’ aging fleet of CF-18 fighter jets is a very significant and important decision for him. He claimed that CF-18 fighter jets are the technology that the military will rely on for decades.

On Monday Lt.-Gen. Tom Lawson was officially promoted from being a general to Chief of Defense Staff, succeeding Gen. Walt Natynczyk, retired recently after four years long role in the office. Natynczyk mentioned his replacement to be “a great officer and a gentleman.”

Lawson was speaking to the media on Tuesday regarding the challenges lying ahead, when he pointed out that in contrast of his predecessors, Natynczyk and Gen. Rick Hillier before him, he is not taking control of military amidst an active combat mission. Hence Lawson shared that he will be prioritizing to bring the Canada’s servicemen and women back home and ensure that Canadian Forces are completely prepared for any such “challenges” in future.

Lawson shared that most recent challenges ahead include the task of discovering potent replacements of Canada’s fighter jets; he claims that this project is very vital to the military’s future. Lawson reportedly mentioned that “It’s a big project, and we have several on the books — we have, of course, the national ship-procurement strategy underway as well — and we have to get these things right. The Canadian Forces will be living with this equipment we’ll be buying for decades, a generation and more.”