Originally Posted by
rattman
Been told by a few people its completely unreliable
The aircraft are being stripped with the parts being sold back to other users. Yes the airframes are being destroyed but only after ever useble part is removed. Most of the parts are being returned to the manufacturer / airbus. Moving an airframe back to europe costs more than the airframe is worth
Well I am sure the article will prompt questions in Senate Estimates or similar in the new year.
Seems to me that if ADF doesn't like them, we could have loaded them all on an LHD and taken them intact to NZ. They could then have decided which ones to part out and which to retain for attrition? Not sure how much variation there is between theirs and ours.