In my daily delivery of the gossip columns from Australia, the ABC is reporting that there is now a serious push to scrap the F111's by 2006, a decade earlier than planned.
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Plan to scrap F-111s
By Patrick Walters
August 5, 2003
THE RAAF's 35 F-111 warplanes - Australia's front-line strategic strike force - could be retired from service from 2006, a decade earlier than originally planned, if the Government accepts a controversial option put forward by the Defence Department.
F-111: expensive, obsolete
A key issue is whether early retirement for the long-range F-111s could leave a gaping hole in Australia's front-line defences early next decade.
The Government has accepted strategic advice that Australia faces no conventional military threat for the next 15 years and has placed greater emphasis on the defence force working in coalition operations further from Australia's shores.