Fitting Location

It is fitting and proper that uninformed rent-seekers gather at an obsolete defense solution (a fort with coastal defense guns--which I recommend visiting btw) to talk about an obsolete and ineffective defense solution, the F-35 Just So Failed.

Here is the short story, on the dud aircraft these people want.

Assessing Joint Strike Fighter Defence Penetration Capabilities

F-35's air-to-air ability limited

21 May, 2014 10:06AM AEST
Defence showcase at Fort Scratchley

Business opportunities in the Defence sector are being showcased today at Fort Scratchley.

Members of the Hunter military industrial complex and businesses that aspire to be part of the military industrial complex will be gathering, appropriately, at Fort Scratchley today for the start of a 2 day conference on the business opportunities available from defence spending in this region.

The controversial Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) will be based in the region and is one of the few areas of government spending increasing in The Hunter from the recent Federal budget.

Companies as diverse as the Newcastle Port Corporation, various engineering and medical businesses through to the Hunter TAFE are attending hoping to get a share in the money coming into the region's Defence sector.

The 58 new F-35s will cost more than 12 billion dollars and Ian Dick, the project manager at Hunternet and one of the organisers of the Hunter Defence Conference, wants to maximise the opportunity for local profit: "there's going to be a lot of opportunity, particularly for sustainment and maintenance of these aircraft for the next 30 years in the region."

Updates will also be given on current and future land and maritime projects, and other regional and defence opportunities.

Mr Dick explained that, " it's going to be a good opportunity, particularly for the regional small to medium enterprises to mix with the Defence people and understand those projects."

The conference continues at Fort Scratchley tomorrow.

Schedule for the conference here.

(Photo I took of Fort Scratchley in 2010. Sorry, no perspective control lens. Click image to make larger.)


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