RNZAF P-8 Poseidon purchase
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RNZAF P-8 Poseidon purchase
NZ goverment going to purchase 4 x Boeing P-8 Poseidon to replace their legacy P-3K fleet,
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/...atrol-aircraft
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https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/...atrol-aircraft
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Other tasks the Orions have undertaken recently have included participation in international operations to counter piracy and illicit smuggling off the Horn of Africa, surveillance of the volcano in Vanuatu, assessing damage from Cyclones Winston and Gita in the Pacific, surveillance of critical infrastructure after the Kaikoura earthquake, and fisheries monitoring
Just came back from Nu Zuld.
Sister tells me the un-informed bleating has started already about spending all this money on aircraft that can be `weaponised.'
And a P-3 couldn't be???
FFS.
One of the main things they'll be doing is making sure sneaky foreign fishing boats don't try and pillage one of the world's largest EEZs!
Surely even a lentil munching greenie can't object to that?!
Bunch of whingers.
Need a Mark 54 right up their jacksies they do...
Sister tells me the un-informed bleating has started already about spending all this money on aircraft that can be `weaponised.'
And a P-3 couldn't be???
FFS.
One of the main things they'll be doing is making sure sneaky foreign fishing boats don't try and pillage one of the world's largest EEZs!
Surely even a lentil munching greenie can't object to that?!
Bunch of whingers.
Need a Mark 54 right up their jacksies they do...
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Just came back from Nu Zuld.
Sister tells me the un-informed bleating has started already about spending all this money on aircraft that can be `weaponised.'
And a P-3 couldn't be???
FFS.
One of the main things they'll be doing is making sure sneaky foreign fishing boats don't try and pillage one of the world's largest EEZs!
Surely even a lentil munching greenie can't object to that?!
Bunch of whingers.
Need a Mark 54 right up their jacksies they do...
Sister tells me the un-informed bleating has started already about spending all this money on aircraft that can be `weaponised.'
And a P-3 couldn't be???
FFS.
One of the main things they'll be doing is making sure sneaky foreign fishing boats don't try and pillage one of the world's largest EEZs!
Surely even a lentil munching greenie can't object to that?!
Bunch of whingers.
Need a Mark 54 right up their jacksies they do...
Travelled down to Southland also.
A few lentil munchers down there, but also a reassuring number of sensible people too.
And a whole lot of cold, green, windy dark ocean - particularly when standing on Bluff Hill!
Lotsa Patagonian toothfish, Orange Roughy, whales and other species being taken by unscrupulous fvckers out there.
Had a read of the P-8 specs - it can pack quite a punch if needed.
I particularly like the wing kits that are being developed for torpedos - allowing them to be dropped and fly like cruise missiles from up nice and high and a long way away.
Bit more of a deterrent than a round or two across the bows from an A4K.
Oi - TBM - check this out.
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I've got no problems with weapons on P-8s, but the trouble with sinking a boat fishing illegally is that there would be a mountain of paperwork, and there's a good chance that the majority of the crew are working in conditions close to serfdom. Perhaps more practical would be to arm the Patagonian toothfish--they sound already quite BAMF.
