And we need so many advanced super jet fighters because...?

[i-need-a-martini]

We are about to spend $12.4billion dollars on 58 stealth fighters with another 42 coming. Bringing our air combat fighting capacity up to 100.

Plus we need to send another $1.6billion improving base facilities to house them.

Now whilst I can understand the need to replace our existing aging defence planes because of unreliability, 100 seems just a tad excessive.

[fourandsixpants]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_Boomerang 

The CAC Boomerang was a World War II fighter aircraft designed and manufactured in Australia between 1942 and 1945. The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation produced Boomerangs under the production contract numbers CA-12, CA-13, CA-14 and CA-19, with aircraft supplied under each subsequent contract incorporating modifications and improvements. The Boomerang is significant as the first combat aircraft designed and built in Australia.[1]

Variants[edit]CA-12 (Mark I) The first single-seat fighter version, 105 built. CA-13 (Mark II) Improved version of the CA-12, 95 built. CA-14 One aircraft fitted with a turbo-supercharged engine, did not enter production. Serial number A46-1001. CA-14A The CA-14 prototype was later modified to have a square tail and rudder CA-19 Tactical reconnaissance variant with a single vertical camera in the fuselage, 49 built. Serial numbers: A46-201 to A46-249.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_Wirraway

The Wirraway (an Aboriginal word meaning "challenge") was a training and general purpose military aircraft manufactured in Australia by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) between 1939 and 1946. The aircraft was an Australian development of the North American NA-16 training aircraft.

During World War II, the Wirraway saw action, in a makeshift light bomber/ground attack capacity, against Japanese forces. It was also the starting point for the design of an "emergency fighter", the CAC Boomerang.

Variants[edit]

• CA-1 – 40 built
• CA-3 – 60 built
• CA-5 – 32 built
• CA-7 – 100 built
• CA-8 – 200 built
• CA-9 – 188 built
• CA-10 – Unbuilt bomber version.
• CA-16 – 135 built

[lakeland27]

this sketch is the production line , (too sensitive a place for photography during wartime )

[spotweldersfriend]

Tony might get the Green Army to plant some spruce plantations so we can build our own planes in future.

[lakeland27]

we have enough codeine to keep a howard hughes fueled up too .

[spotweldersfriend]

😄

[fourandsixpants]

funny?.....no. Mind set against doing it for ourselves for the benefit of many Australians is only hampered by those with lack of fortitude, guts and vision IMO.

[lakeland27]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

funny?.....no. Mind set against doing it for ourselves for the benefit of many Australians is only hampered by those with lack of fortitude, guts and vision IMO.

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 you misunderstand me. i agree with you for the most part.

[fourandsixpants]

cool. Yes, these birds are old and antiquated now but the thought, planning and DOING is what I am really on about.

[boris1gary]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/liberal-mp-dennis-jensen-attacks-joint-stri...

Liberal MP Dennis Jensen attacks Joint Strike Fighter order as a 'dud' decision

Liberal MP Dennis Jensen has launched an extraordinary attack on the Abbott government's multibillion-dollar purchase of fighter jets, suggesting his colleagues lacked the competency and the courage to stop the order.

"It's a dud decision," said Dr Jensen, a former Defence Department analyst, on Wednesday after the Abbott government revealed it had ordered 58 Joint Strike Fighters at a cost of $12 billion.

But Dr Jensen, who has studied the Joint Strike Fighter for years, said the purchase of the planes had been a "bipartisan stuff up", set in train by the Howard government, continued under Labor and completed under his own government.

Dr Jensen said: "The last couple of [US operational testing] reports ... have shown very, very significant problems with this aircraft."

While most experts say the Joint Strike Fighter is set to be the most advanced fighter for years to come, critics have pointed out the many flaws, delays and cost overruns that have emerged during its development.

The Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter boss, Lieutenant-General Chris Bogdan, said during a recent visit to Australia that many problems were still being ironed out, particularly the complex software – requiring more than 8 million lines of code – which he said was ''still a risky, risky business''.

[boris1gary]

Another Dud.