Agree with Frazzled.
The J is an amazing aircraft - beautiful to fly, great to operate, gutsy, robust and can cop a bollocking and get up and fight another day.
Has been limited by naivety by non-J operators, E/H fraternity (F/E, Nav and pilot) willing to stick the dagger in it's back every time they can, lack of money thrown at it (bought it without required spares/logistics pipeline and still hurting from it) and lack of man power to develop it.
It cannot do half the roles of the H because 1) Navigator union won't let it 2) lack of manpower to do test and evaluation for those roles 3) it is stuck on operations.
To be honest, I am sick of the J bashing that goes on - so are all the other nations out there with
Js. The RAF J v K issue was massive - now the Ks are gone, but the J bashing continues.
In summary, the J could have been an absolutely brilliant aircraft in RAAF service - but due to beauracracy, it will always be remembered for being mediocre.
Shame, shame, shame.
