Defence Minister Stephen Smith does not plan to proceed with a scheduled decision on the purchase of another 58 Joint Strike Fighters valued at almost $6 billion this calendar year.
Because there is no such thing as a go-to-war configured F-35 at that price. Maybe one will be available for evaluation in 2020? 2022? Never?
"The government is not delivering on its 2009 Defence White Paper commitments," Australian Strategic Policy Institute budgetary analyst Mark Thompson said.
Because the 2009 White Paper was a stupid joke.
He said savings under the strategic reform program had been exaggerated, capability planning was unrealistic, Defence's long-term plans were unaffordable and further budget cuts were to be expected in May as the government sought its ''holy grail'' of a 2013 budget surplus.
And we should not be surprised given the deskilled thinking available in quantity.
Mr Smith, who fears delays in the JSF program could leave Australia with an air-warfare capability gap, said he was more focused on what would happen with the first 14 planes - only two of which Australia is contractually obliged to take - than the second tranche right now.
Yet no one seems to have the balls to say that those two jets will be worthless junk.
He is due to receive a submission from the Defence Materiel Organisation on the next 58 JSFs, the so-called ''second tranche'', around September or October
Why? Any "analysis" by that crew will be faulty; by virtue of their performance.
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well, what is still amazing is that no matter what political party, what country, what position, nobody is coming out and saying the F-35 is an engineering disaster which it actually seems to be, we are cancelling the F-35 and we are buying the F-15 SE instead as an example for Australia. Rarely have I seen such a case of mass hypnosis. Would a new US President break the spell?
South Korean project for development of an indigenous fighter.. codeveloper is Indonesia..
http://bemil.chosun.com/nbrd/bbs/view.html?b_bbs_id=10040&pn=1&num=66084
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