spazsinbad wrote:F-35 fighters arrive on Australian soil
10 Dec 2018 Nigel Pittaway
"...... Two more aircraft will be delivered to Williamtown in April 2019 and eight aircraft will have been delivered by the end of the year. The Hornet is due to be retired by the end of 2023...."
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This probably belongs on the Canadudes thread but I couldn't help but notice how cool it was to see the future of Australian airpower in the same photo as [sarc On] the ultra modern vision of the exciting future of Canadian airpower! [sarc Off]
The photo almost resembles an image that might exist some day as the Canadians send 4 aircraft to help the coalition bomb some target, but need to have two Aussies escort them in case of some day 2 popup threats.
(Aussie pilots thinking all the while, "why are we doing this? when we could just bomb the target ourselves? ... oh yeah coalition esprit de corps .. go Canadudes! you can do it! Rah Rah!")
BP