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maus92
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 Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 06:57 PM
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"AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands will buy fewer than the 85 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets it had planned to acquire because costs have risen and the country needs to replace fewer F-16 fighters, the Dutch defence minister said on Sunday."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/10195916 |
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shingen
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Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 08:49 PM
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This just in:
Everybody's broke except the Chinese. In 20 years they'll have a lot of retirees and fewer workers and they'll be broke too.
A few expensive platforms backed up by lots of cheap drones and cyberstuff. Or you can refurb 4th gens to support industry and pretend you're still in the game. |
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Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 12:58 AM
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| Okay, what is maus92's grudge against the F-35? |
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munny
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Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 01:54 AM
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Hasn't been on in a while and needed that attention fix / needed to try and counter some of the good news of late / petty trolling ... who knows. We'll know if its reason one if he creates 7 individual threads with non-news stories like this, like he's done in the past.
Strange that both he and that avxva guy stopped posting at exactly the same time a few weeks ago tho ... |
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geogen
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Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 07:06 AM
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If RNLAF feel they can currently get by with 60+ F-16 (an Air Force you have, not necessarily an Air Force you wish you had), then likely the more realistic scenario is a future RNLAF operating at best 45x F-35A (perhaps an average unit Weapon System Procurement cost of around $165m each + initial spares).. these will be fully operational much later than originally and even currently expected and as such, F-16s will need further upgrades and other stopgap solutions will be possibly necessary to hold over until a credible operational F-35 force structure is in place. imho
And FWIW, such assessments have been foreseeable for at least 3 years now. |
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Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 07:40 AM
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shingen wrote:
This just in:
Everybody's broke except the Chinese. In 20 years they'll have a lot of retirees and fewer workers and they'll be broke too.
A few expensive platforms backed up by lots of cheap drones and cyberstuff. Or you can refurb 4th gens to support industry and pretend you're still in the game.
Chinese will stop birth control, and in that case, US can approve more immigrants.  |
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Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 01:09 AM
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| Actually, China is pretty much doomed already, regardless of whether they lift the child limit. |
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