Would appear Australia is flogging off everything but the kitchen sink.
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Would appear Australia is flogging off everything but the kitchen sink.
Australian Defence Force to sell off thousands of assets | globaldefenceanalysis
THE DEFENCE GARAGE SALE
12,000 vehicles (3300 Landrovers, 2500 light trailers, 2430 medium trucks)
Up to 24 ships; (Landing ships HMAS Manoora and Kanimbla, supply ship, frigates, barges)
70 combat aircraft; (F/A-18 Hornet fighters)
110 other aircraft; (C-130 Hercules, King Air)
* 120 helicopters; (Sea King, Seahawk, Blackhawk)
* 600 armoured vehicles; (Armoured personnel carriers)
* A range of communications systems, weapons and explosive ordnance (M2A2 Howitzers, 30 calibre machine guns, Hamel guns, M60D Machine guns, SLRs, torpedos).
12,000 vehicles (3300 Landrovers, 2500 light trailers, 2430 medium trucks)
Up to 24 ships; (Landing ships HMAS Manoora and Kanimbla, supply ship, frigates, barges)
70 combat aircraft; (F/A-18 Hornet fighters)
110 other aircraft; (C-130 Hercules, King Air)
* 120 helicopters; (Sea King, Seahawk, Blackhawk)
* 600 armoured vehicles; (Armoured personnel carriers)
* A range of communications systems, weapons and explosive ordnance (M2A2 Howitzers, 30 calibre machine guns, Hamel guns, M60D Machine guns, SLRs, torpedos).
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These look like just the items we need to invade Argentina. I'd like to start a new party. Like UKIP but the other way round. The new British Empire. Hopefully they'll come up on E-Bay like the Headquarters there that I'm going to buy. I need some help with this.
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Happy to serve Courtney ... Happy to be your Chancellor ... I'll have to wait until the Bank opens Monday to get my Platinum Card Credit Limit increased to help secure a few immediate essentials 
Ha ha, all stuff to be replaced -
F/A-18C/D replaced by Super Hornet
S-70 replaced by Romeo Hawk
Old Herks by J mod
Sea King and some Black Hawk by MRH-90
Though Sea Kings went out of service over a year ago as 815 NAS was decommissioned.
AH HANG ON A SEC
can't sell off the US stuff .....arn';t there limitations to a customer flogging anything made in the USA? Especially the F/A-18 and the S-70. By en large wouldnt they go back to USA, the boneyard?
F/A-18C/D replaced by Super Hornet
S-70 replaced by Romeo Hawk
Old Herks by J mod
Sea King and some Black Hawk by MRH-90
Though Sea Kings went out of service over a year ago as 815 NAS was decommissioned.
AH HANG ON A SEC
can't sell off the US stuff .....arn';t there limitations to a customer flogging anything made in the USA? Especially the F/A-18 and the S-70. By en large wouldnt they go back to USA, the boneyard?
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Have no idea who checked for accuracy. No Hornets are or ever will be for sale, the ADF does not have 110 helicopters and the C130s are being gifted to Indonesia and the RAAF Museum.
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Would appear Australia is flogging off everything but the kitchen sink.
The story is far from accurate! No Hornets are or ever will be for sale, the ADF does not have 110 helicopters and the C130s are being gifted to Indonesia and the RAAF Museum.
An interesting Cabinet. Let's go for it. Buster, send terms to the Government in BA. Nutloose, declare a state of emergency, Coff, get the cheque book out. Someone call up BEags as the PM. Looking for volunteers for a few posts. Once we get this going, I'd like to be a Fg Off again and cause trouble.
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I'll take Foreign Sec - at least that way we might get to go somewhere nice other than desert!
I hear the Bahamas are rather nice at this time of the year, now what excuse, ahem, sorry, justification might there be for going there?
I hear the Bahamas are rather nice at this time of the year, now what excuse, ahem, sorry, justification might there be for going there?
Can we all nick a nuclear sub and set up base on a Caribeann island?
And I want to drive the F18 but Courtney needs to teach me to fly it first because I suspect a few hours in the back of a Chippy isn't adequate.
If so i'm in.
And I want to drive the F18 but Courtney needs to teach me to fly it first because I suspect a few hours in the back of a Chippy isn't adequate.
If so i'm in.
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As Home Secretary does that mean I can give the previous monotoned imbecil a course of elocution lessons and a syrup as a farewell gift, then cap all their pensions in line with the state one and make it only payable at 70.
Could I then send Gordon Brown and Tony Blair on a one way fact finding mission to some obscure lost Amazon cannibal tribe to learn and advise them on good dietary, come to think on it Phoney Tony could take the missus with him..
I'm in
Could I then send Gordon Brown and Tony Blair on a one way fact finding mission to some obscure lost Amazon cannibal tribe to learn and advise them on good dietary, come to think on it Phoney Tony could take the missus with him..
I'm in
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Whatever floats your boat Buster, though he does nothing for me, is it the short?
