New Zealand to Host Singaporean F-15SG?

[ORAC]

A squadron of sub-sonic aircraft with the ability to intercept an airliner

Speaking as someone who controlled QRA for nearly 25 years, I assure that that by the time you add up detection, identification, decision making, scrambling and then climbing to above 30K to intercept, identify and, possibly, engage - you definitely need to be able to go supersonic.

Which is why you keep reading those reports of sonic booms over the UK as the RAF does it.....

[MACH2NUMBER]

Spot on ORAC, in anti-terrorist air operations, speed is absolutely vital. I suspect if anything untoward ever happened in NZ airspace people would demand that heads be rolled.

[Arclite01]

Did NZ ever actually have any form of QRA operation anyway ??

I don't think they ever had any true fighters since Vampires !!



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[Heathrow Harry]

ORAC etc make a good point - I guess it all depends on how far in advance you decide its a possible threat..................

[Octane]

They've got 2 Mosquito fighter bombers in the air in the last few years with a third on way. Do they count?! They seem to have the talent, maybe they could start mass producing something basic, cheap, suitable and cheap to operate? What on earth would it be though?
They also do have the worlds largest collection of airworthy WW1 aircraft