Australia F111 to be scrapped!!

"Dave Kearton" wrote in
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"David Bromage" wrote in message
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John Cook wrote:
Hmmm. not really, the F18's are used on deployment occaisionally,
the
F111 were hanger queens, Were they ever used??? anywhere!, it would
have been a perfect deployment to Iraq to test there capabilities
and provide real world combat training.

They might be used in the war against North Korea.

Cheers
David




You have to pick your wars carefully. Whichever engagement uses our
F-111s will probably use all of the remaining airframe life.

Exactly, they are somewhat constrained in the flight profiles already.

Limiting airframe hours applies to many Australian aircraft (not to mention
most defence forces). Those helo's that went to E.Timpor did a combined
11000 AFHRS (media release). Now how many helos were actually there? Do the
calculations and that's still a lot of AFHRS, particular hours that weren't
planned for (but thats the nature of defence).

Long hours, high speeds, dodging SAMs with a full load, will render
the
pigs good for pole duty on their return.

I'll take one for the front yard.

Same thing happened to the Victor K2s after the Falklands.

Yup, and they were juggling hours on those Vulcans as well.

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