Re: F-35 coming along as planned. Never.
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Re: F-35 coming along as planned. Never.         

Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: hcobb
Date: Sep 20, 2008 05:43

On Sep 20, 12:47 am, true.blue.bl...@gmail.com wrote:
> So.....based on our experiences in East Timor, WTF is the use of
> buying an enormously expensive plane which has been designed for use
> in Europe/the middle-east and is completely unsuited to the Australian
> environment of long distances and the need to carry a lot of ordnance
> to allow longer missions?

Oz needs the F-35B which can attack a heck of a lot farther from its
fixed bases than the F-22 can.

-HJC
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