Air force eyes 18 more Super Hornets as delays dog our new fighter | The Australian
DEVELOPMENT of the revolutionary Joint Strike Fighter, intended to provide Australia's air defence through this century, is running well behind schedule and the RAAF may need to buy 18 more Super Hornets for $1.5 billion to fill the gap.
So tell me, ftrplt, having read the article above, what's your definition of "stop gap"?
You've cast a few extremely thinly veiled (if veiled at all!) personal insults at veterans who've posted here, so let me return the compliment with knobs on. From the tenor of your posts, to me, you come across as a Department of Defence
PR man and not much more.
The Howard government bought 24 Super Hornets for $6bn in 2007 to fill an earlier strategic gap left when the RAAF's F-111 bombers were withdrawn ahead of time because of concerns about fatigue.