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[roddy1960]

G'day all..The other day I was talking to a former teacher who joined the RAAF in the mid 1990's and who recently retired. We got talking about Australia's position on the purchase of it's front line jets. There's been a lot of debate going on over our commitment to buying around 70 or so F-35 Lightning ll's to replace the FA 18 Legacy Hornets .

Due to a mass of problems the RAAF , a few years back bought 24 of the updated Boeing built FA 18 F Superhornets as a stop gap fighter to fill in the delays The retired RAAF/ former workmate teacher was telling us that the RAAF bigwigs are actually seriously worried that the F35 might turn out to be a massive mistake and the multi role Superhornet might have been a smarter decision..

The Canadians are in the same exact situation.. Australia have also purchased twelve Superhornets on top of the other 24 as the weapons jamming version signified as Growlers I believe.

just wondering if any AFF members have experience or opinions on this matter as the deadline to retire the ageing fleet of 75 Legacy Hornets approaches.
For those not really familiar with this , here's a vid from a while back on this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1LNmfZL7Ec In this second video , same Aussie RAAF officer features but the details on the Superhornet are explained further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f85q...Q#t=210.717572.
What do you boys and girls think for our Asia Pacific region ?
Cheers Rod..