Thread: Eyewitness From the Cockpit: F-15/16 vs. MiG-29
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Old 02-09-2015, 06:28 AM
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The whole situation sucks for us. We have 55 F/A-18As, 18 F/A-18Bs and 24 F/A-18Fs (Super Hornets). The Super Hornets were purchased when it started to become apparent how delayed the F-35s would be. Since then the situation with the F-35s has become even worse. We were supposed to buy 72 F-35s but now? I think the ADF and the Australian Government are caught between a rock and a hard place.

Thanks a lot Lockheed Martin. Usually we Australians like to be kissed before we're sodomised. No kiss for us eh?

Canada is in the same boat, and Sikorsky is screwing us on CH-148 Cyclone too so nothing like getting it twice from two big US companies
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