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Has Australia considered sharing a firefighting aircraft fleet with a country in the northern Hemisphere such as Canada? (toronto.citynews.ca)
submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by supersquirrel@lemmy.ca to c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
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Link is to article about Canada's great need for firefighting aircraft.

Call me crazy... but 99% of the time wouldn't a shared firefighting aircraft fleet shared between Australia and Canada or perhaps a European nation only be needed in one or the other place at any one given time of year??

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[-] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Than why is it cheaper and more advisable to buy an airplane built on the other side of the world (legal complications aside for a moment) than build one yourself?

[-] dusk@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago

If in Canada, I doubt that is the case.

In Australia... we are on the other side of the planet to the majority.

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