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An extra floating Target vice an Air Combat Capability????

Dragon what are you smoking??

Scrap 2 SQNs of Strike jets for one more floating radar target???

Please..

As for VTOL Daves to operate off your LHD....Where are we getting the $$$ for that?? RAAF not like the Navy - 1 type, 1 loggie tail.

The basic garden variety Dave is risky enough, without waiting for a small fleet within a fleet of VTOLs.

Look at the UK...The SHAR was the best AD jet they had...But it was killed to save $$$$

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Will the RAN put a nice sticker on "their" aircraft in a branding exercise like the RAF?

Surely it'd be more suitable to compare the RAN with the RN, after all it was the RN that started the whole aircraft branding thing in the UK.:rolleyes:

Couldn't they re-coupe some of the costs by turning them into one of those rides at shopping centres for $2?

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Surely it'd be more suitable to compare the RAN with the RN, after all it was the RN that started the whole aircraft branding thing in the UK.

Only heard the latest with the RAF getting the sh!t$ for being confused with Army because their cabs are green.

When were the RN doing / did it?

antipodean alligator - what ever I am smoking I am sure glad it isn't what you are.

Did you even bother to read my post?

The pretense was that if the defence forces were given an additional $6 Billion to spend (proposed budget for the 24 super hornets), then the choice would not have been the super hornets. As I said, there would be a wish list a mile long, I didn't say I had the answer.

The F-111 will never be deployed in anger, why not scrap it now, save some money there. It aint a new capability gap if its always been there, which is the false pretense under which the super hornets are being purchased.

The point about the LHDs, is that if they are ever deployed into a war zone, they will need air defence, who is going to provide this, the floating radar, as you put, only 3 of them, land based aircraft, can't always guarantee coverage from them, unless your in the RAF in the late 70s, and want to move Australia to suite. If we are going to do it, at least lets do it right.

"Look at the UK...The SHAR was the best AD jet they had...But it was killed to save $$$$" and as a result we got the Sea jet thread.