text: The CAF lives with all manner of politically directed second-rate equipment. The problem is that successive Canadian governments refuse to accept the limitations and results of  their dismal strategic mismanagement. By your logic Forces members will be directed to do the same work with a less capable (and safe) piece of equipment. 
  
  I will point out that in modern air operations the need for SEAD and state of the art aircraft DEWS has become a persistent requirement in anything like a state on state conflict, let alone a near-peer adversary (which is typically the CAF's capability mandate from the gov't). 
  
  That "first day strike" term is nothing but a media response line for the uninformed.