PPRuNe Forums - Long Live the Pig (2024)

Most of those who doubt Carlo's knowledge and recommendations usually have their head buried so far into the operational world that they fail to see the broader picture.

Carlo's opinions should be heeded by those in Defence as his arguments are well contructed and well informed.

Aeros champ

Are you saying that the Guys and Girls who operate at the sharp end of the ADF aren't qualified to comment on the very machinery they operate :confused:

Cessnadude

Last I heard they were doing something just like that with the B52.

Was a question not a criticism.:rolleyes:

I don't suppose you have anything constructive to add or is the Phoenix permanently stuck in the ashes.?

kmaygoyoyoyo (whatever)

you guys are more than qualified to comment on the operations and tactical employment of your aircraft. But all too often you lack the big picture viewpoint in terms of strategic direction and aquisitions.

We have recently aquired a new airframe type here in the west which was originally opposed by most of the aircrew, it has however turned out to be a more profitable and wiser decision.

The F111 certainly appeases all the Menzies like Indo-phobes!

Was having a whiskey with an Indon Air Force bar owner recently and he told me their handful of Flankers are radarless & weaponless except for a cannon and grease pencil targeting system drawn on the canopy. Evidently their American made fighters have had unservicable radar for a while too.

I think a little bit of their procurment budget ends up funding unofficial Indonesian Officers' Messes in profitable locations like Bali.

Perhaps it is timely to dump the F111, reinforce our battalions and make the Orion the long range strike platform.

Army/Orion combo may not be glamourous, but a more efficient means of killing terrorists than F111's.

I keep telling you: Cash isn't a problem. Just plug some of the leaks to the multitude of bludgers in our society and funding will not be a problem.

Take a few pollies for a ride. Even the left-wing, peace-nik, pot-smoking, appeasist Dermocrat f***s will wet their pants if taken for a hack/flick/zoom in a Pig. Then cash will flow.

Somebody mentioned Global Hawks a while back. In my frenzy to issue smartarsisms as fast as possible, I forgot to say:

As far as I'm aware, Australia has committed to purchase at least one, possibly 2 or 3 of these machines.

Gnads, don't forget Air Warfare Destroyers and possibly a Helo Carrier on the horizon for the puss*rs. The carrier will supplement the Manura and Kanimbla nicely as a platform for armed intervention (bullying) amongst the islands up north. Got to keep these feral JI-style fanatic mo********ers from grabbing a toe-hold in the impoverished lands they normally target.

AerosChamp - 133 Pilots. If you get scrubbed from Nav Course and you started out as a Nav, you could apply for Pilots Course but since most Navs have already been scrubbed from Pilots Course, this is unlikely to succeed.

I was under the assumption that the 2x Aircraft Carrier order was a forgone conclusion??? The RAN essentially saying they WILL get them... With the USAF keen on the VSTOL F-35, I reckon the RAN stand at least a good chance of 25 odd VSTOL F-35s if the carriers come... I read that the carriers would fit size wise between the UK carriers and the US (non-super) carriers. Anyone know what the go is here???

miltz (or whatever it was)... thanks for that info on the Wedgetail engine bulge... been wondering what those were for quite a while!

Yr jerkin ya gherkin, mate, those carriers (I thought it was only one) will be K-Mart style - probably old flat-tops re-floated from the shallows of Guadalcanal, and fitted by the lowest bidder. They will be the size of the James Cook ferry but they will be better than the ones our "friends" to the north have.

That's IF the leftists and commies in the Senate don't block the funds. (Do they have enough pull these days????) I don't think it's a foregone conclusion, by any means, but welcome the acquisition if it happens.... anything to keep the pox-ridden puss*rs from molesting each other.

I can't see F-35 VSTOLs being part of the deal, no matter how hard the puss*rs beat their meat. Too pricey. And anyway the puss*rs have forgotten how to fly properly. They can only do swing-wing these days. They lost the abillity to think fast enough for real jets.

Anyway even with the Harrier Junk Jet getting an autoland system for Vertical landings, these new machines will be a button pressing exercise that will have even the A320 pilots feeling like master pioneer aviators. No more Maverick-style face-splatting landings.

I don't know. All I know is:

I'm pissed and

You're using big dowrds like:

WTF..............

Really..........do tell! And I assume the new type was a Carlo Kopp approved aquisition.:hmm:

Maybe it was an upgrade to the C182.................you know new engines and avionics.......................even a new build airframe!

Must be abject terror for the indons facing new equipment like that!

There will be no rebuilding of the F111 for one overriding and very important reason.......

Who wants to be posted to Bankstown, Newcastle or Melbourne when you can be posted to the U.S.? All those lovely allowances and foriegn holidays! :O

Why doesn't the RAAF buy some of those rear-firing aerial mines that I read about a while back - the US must have a few old ones lying around that could be fitted pretty easily? I hear they were very effective on the B-52.

Wouldn't that increase the pig's throw weight? Or does the fact that they go backwards mean that the TW is decreased?:confused:

Statistically the most successful strike fighter in Desert Storm was the F111, with no loss to enemy fire in the highest density of air defence outside of central Europe. The F111F was the backbone of the coalition precision bombing fleet, outnumbering all other types equipped with laser designating equipment. This success is attributed to its combination of range, payload and speed.

:ok:

Yippee Ki Yi Yay!

Yawn.............. :zzz:

That's old news.

What's it done for us lately? I say use them before the things run out of warranty. Someone's been making noise up to the north lately and needs a kicking to remind them who's boss.

This is why we bought them.