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Reply #45 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 11:01am
 
Bobby. wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 10:55am:
Hippy,
The yanks are still using the B52s.
It depends on any metal fatigue
which can be measured.

and they just fly high and drop bomb's not enter combat.….
The F111 is a strike fighter... how many of them do the yanks still use ?
Beside the aardvarks have been decommissioned about 15 years I think, its a no where argument :0 they will never come back, just like the mustang and camels..... Wink
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Reply #46 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 11:37am
 
The pilot of an F35 just watches a computer screen, any error messages, he just bails out, no time to do anything else
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Reply #47 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 11:40am
 
Bias_2012 wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 11:37am:
The pilot of an F35 just watches a computer screen, any error messages, he just bails out, no time to do anything else

and thankfully only one has had to do that in 12 years  Wink
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Reply #48 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 11:52am
 
DonDeeHippy wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 11:01am:
Bobby. wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 10:55am:
Hippy,
The yanks are still using the B52s.
It depends on any metal fatigue
which can be measured.

and they just fly high and drop bomb's not enter combat.….
The F111 is a strike fighter... how many of them do the yanks still use ?
Beside the aardvarks have been decommissioned about 15 years I think, its a no where argument :0 they will never come back, just like the mustang and camels..... Wink


You have  a point.
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Re: First F-35 fighter jet crash
Reply #49 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 11:55am
 
DonDeeHippy wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 11:40am:
Bias_2012 wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 11:37am:
The pilot of an F35 just watches a computer screen, any error messages, he just bails out, no time to do anything else

and thankfully only one has had to do that in 12 years  Wink



Yep, it's safe enough for the RAAF to have a quota of female fighter pilots now, it still a mens' club flying fighter jets   Wink
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Reply #50 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 12:05pm
 
The F35s is pretty much directed at Russia and China.  We really dont  need F35s to combat ISIS or Taliban.  We have much less costing armed drones for those.
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Reply #51 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 12:12pm
 
This is probably a better option for us considering we still don't have any aircraft carrier to launch them from.

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Reply #52 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 1:21pm
 
I read, somewhere, that the F-35 is likely to be the last manned US fighter plane. Of course there will still be manned aircraft, just not in that capacity.
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Reply #53 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 4:43pm
 
Sir lastnail wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 12:12pm:
This is probably a better option for us considering we still don't have any aircraft carrier to launch them from.




Hi Nail,
it's all about us being able operate with the Yanks in an F35 team.
We need F35s to do that.
Each plane pilot can see what another pilot is seeing.
The technology is amazing.
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Reply #54 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 5:01pm
 
Sir lastnail wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 12:12pm:
This is probably a better option for us considering we still don't have any aircraft carrier to launch them from.


Actually, we have two - HMAS CANBERRA and HMAS ADELAIDE.  While neither is equipped for the sustained operation of fixed wing aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, they could, in an emergency be used to operate such aircraft if Australia was ever to decide to purchase such an aircraft.   While the CANBERRA class are designed as amphibious warfare ships, they do have a flight deck with a ski-jump on the bow.  They could not operate CTOL aircraft as there is no provision in them for arrester gear to stop them once they land on the flight deck.


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Reply #55 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 6:05pm
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 30th, 2018 at 9:08am:
I blame Islam.



And it's common knowledge you're a tool.
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Reply #56 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 6:29pm
 
tickleandrose wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 12:05pm:
The F35s is pretty much directed at Russia and China.  We really dont  need F35s to combat ISIS or Taliban.  We have much less costing armed drones for those.   


We won't need F35s for Russia or China ... more like the peril just to our north that we keep giving money to hand over fist.

And the F35s are years behind schedule & have been a bottomless pit for expense with questionable fighter capability and poor range.

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After years of delays and cost blow-outs, the controversial Joint Strike Fighter has arrived on Australian soil for the first time.


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Their debut in Australia comes 15 years after the Federal Government first announced that Australia would participate in the "system development and demonstration phase" of the US-led Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter program.


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The Federal Government is preparing to spend $17 billion on 72 F-35 aircraft, with the first expected to be delivered to Australia in 2018 and enter service in 2020.


It will be over $17billion & still 2 years away from them actually being in service.

I'd say they are more likely than not to become the lemons their critics have already said they are.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-27/joint-strike-fighters-f35-land-in-australi...

Yeah who cares about the cost hey Hippie head?  Roll Eyes
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Reply #57 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 6:33pm
 
*SIGH* such ignorance, such foolishness.   Leave defence to the experts.  Amateurs don't know their arses from their elbows.   Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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Reply #58 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 6:45pm
 
Brian Ross wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 6:33pm:
*SIGH* such ignorance, such foolishness.   Leave defence to the experts.  Amateurs don't know their arses from their elbows.   Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes


Much like your pretense of all knowledge ey? DH.

BTW Noddy since when have our politicians been experts on defense.

Like all the experts on the Collins Class Sub fiasco?  Grin
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Reply #59 - Oct 1st, 2018 at 7:12pm
 
Gnads wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 6:45pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Oct 1st, 2018 at 6:33pm:
*SIGH* such ignorance, such foolishness.   Leave defence to the experts.  Amateurs don't know their arses from their elbows.   Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes


Much like your pretense of all knowledge ey? DH.

BTW Noddy since when have our politicians been experts on defense.

Like all the experts on the Collins Class Sub fiasco?  Grin


*SIGH* such ignorance, such foolishness.   Leave defence to the experts.  Amateurs don't know their arses from their elbows.   Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

The COLLINS class are still one of the largest, quietest, conventional submarines in service around the world.  For a first effort at Submarine building, they are not as bad as the media as portrayed them as.  The British BTW, the world's experts at design and submarine construction,  and welded a hull section on, upside down on their nuclear attack class of submarines,  the USA, had to scrap an entire boat on the stocks 'cause the welds were done incorrectly.    Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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