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Reply #30 - Apr 23rd, 2014 at 5:58pm
 
Taipan wrote on Apr 23rd, 2014 at 4:37pm:
This plane is a joke compared to the Russian made jets used by our Asian neighbours.
...and your expertise is based on the last plane you designed - was an ME109???  Smiley
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Reply #31 - Apr 23rd, 2014 at 6:03pm
 
How come Abort has money for toy planes ?

The way that Tony has been going on the international stage he probably thinks that some serious defensive capability may be needed sooner or later.
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Reply #32 - Apr 23rd, 2014 at 7:31pm
 
There is already a thread with 774 posts on this:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1361578583/765#765


I think the real reason we are doing this is to be compatible with the Yanks
weapon & communication systems so that we
could work together as allies in times of war.
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Reply #33 - Apr 23rd, 2014 at 7:34pm
 
The Labor Party put in the first order for these planes & from some investigation they were looking very much like a bottomless pit to pour money down .....way behind schedule & with too many faults....

an aeronautical Collins Class lemon.

Huge computer/software problems that could see them just drop out of the sky with a malfunction. Don't know that they can be flown manually.

Now Abbott has come a long & upped the ante by buying more.

Strange ... usually anything the Labour Party instigates he & his cronies put plans in motion to rescind/repeal/throw out.
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Reply #34 - Apr 24th, 2014 at 10:02am
 
Very strange purchase indeed gnads...

Especially considering we've only ever had a handful of jets in the past... are we on the brink of war that no one knows about?

Maybe abbott wanted to put some money into the Texas economy. .

It also opens up at least 7 billion dollars of contract work for Australia. ..

The other thing with these fighter jets is that they are a fixed priced purchase and maintenance setup...

And for that idiot that suggested that we should purchase Chinese or Russian jets. Well. He should just hand in his resignation!  Angry
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