Australian lawmakers confident in F-35's future

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 21 Feb 2016, 08:35

Preview of RAAF F-35 report
19 Feb 2016 ON THE ROGER

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spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 21 Feb 2016, 17:14

A pre-emptive strike against who knows what... JUMP for more at the URL. Oz Senate Enquiry starts Thu 25 Feb 2016.

US commander defends Joint Strike Fighter F-35A ahead of Senate inquiry
21 Feb 2016 Sally Brooks and James Dunlevie

"The American head of the global Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program supplying new combat aircraft to Australia has been spruiking the jets' capabilities in Darwin ahead of a Senate inquiry into the Federal Government's acquisition of the jets.

Australia is spending around $17 billion on buying 72 US-made aircraft, with the first expected to arrive in Australia in 2018 and enter service in 2020, replacing the Hornet fleet.

Lieutenant General Christopher Bogdan is set to appear before a Senate inquiry into the Federal Government's acquisition of the F-35A jets in Canberra on Thursday.

He spent Sunday talking about the jets' capabilities. "One thing you ought to know — and I am pre-empting my speech in front of the Senate — I am not an F-35 salesman," he said. "There is no match in the world [for the F-35s] and there won't be for 10 or 20 years.

"Here's what an F-35 can do for you: long before two aeroplanes get close enough to see each other the F-35 is going to see that other aeroplane and kill it."

Bogdan dismisses concerns F-35As not suited to hot climates. The JSFs are set to be based at RAAF bases at Williamtown, New South Wales and Tindal, around 330 kilometres south of Darwin, with Tindal to be "used for exercises from two to four weeks per year by visiting squadrons", the Department of Defence said.

Darwin's airport, which functions as both a civilian and military airport, will be used as a JSF "Forward Operating Base", to "support occasional and short-term proposed flying operations" of the JSF aircraft.

US Lieutenant General Chris Bogdan, in Darwin to give a briefing on the JSF F-35 fighter plane program. General Bogdan's visit comes amid criticism of the jets, including that the aircraft are not suited to hot climates.

In a submission to the Senate inquiry, defence analyst David Archibald said F-35s would have trouble operating out of northern Australia. "The F-35 uses its fuel for cooling its electronics," he wrote. "The aircraft won't start if its fuel is too warm, making deployment in northern Australia problematic."

But General Bogdan said the issue with fuel was no different to legacy fighters. "There are limits on any engine including the F-35 as to how hot the fuel can be before you put it in the plane," he said....

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-21/u ... 5a/7187616

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 21 Feb 2016, 17:30

IF you can view the video at this URL of the '60 Minutes Oz F-35' report then it starts at 35 minutes 30 seconds. It is easy to move the slider to that mark to skip over the rest of the bullfullshillfit in this sorry excuse for credible TV insight.

60 Minutes 2016 Episode 3: https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2016/episode-3 (15 minutes viewing time)

pron · by **pron** » 21 Feb 2016, 21:03

spazsinbad wrote:60 Minutes 2016 Episode 3: https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2016/episode-3 (15 minutes viewing time)

I get this when I try: 9Now is only able to show live and on demand content in Australia and does not have international streaming right. If you’re outside of Australia, you won’t be able to watch 9Now until you’re back in the country.

Dragon029 · by **Dragon029** » 21 Feb 2016, 22:11

You'll be able to watch the senate inquiry here: http://www.aph.gov.au/news_and_events/watch_parliament
From what I can gather, it'll probably be 11:30AM - 12:30PM AEDT on the 25th - guys overseas can use Google or Wolfram Alpha to figure out when that is local to your time.

[quote="pron"
I get this when I try: 9Now is only able to show live and on demand content in Australia and does not have international streaming right. If you’re outside of Australia, you won’t be able to watch 9Now until you’re back in the country.[/quote]

The website is proving difficult but I'll see if I can reupload a copy to YouTube.

les_paul59 · by **les_paul59** » 21 Feb 2016, 23:57

thanks for the link dragon, definitely gonna try to watch that hearing

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 22 Feb 2016, 00:11

Dragon029 wrote:You'll be able to watch the senate inquiry here: http://www.aph.gov.au/news_and_events/watch_parliament
From what I can gather, it'll probably be 11:30AM - 12:30PM AEDT on the 25th - guys overseas can use Google or Wolfram Alpha to figure out when that is local to your time.

"pron": I get this when I try: 9Now is only able to show live and on demand content in Australia and does not have international streaming right. If you’re outside of Australia, you won’t be able to watch 9Now until you’re back in the country.

'Dragon029: "The website is proving difficult but I'll see if I can reupload a copy to YouTube.

Thanks for the Parliament Video link.

Dragon029 · by **Dragon029** » 22 Feb 2016, 00:45

I've been having more issues trying to record this damn show, but I'll keep at it - Spazinbad; the Facebook link only shows me a picture advertisement of the show segment (no video).

beepa · by **beepa** » 22 Feb 2016, 00:52

60 Minutes Australia website has it, you just gotta log in. There are also some "extra minutes" with some more footage and an interesting interview or two.

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 22 Feb 2016, 01:04

Dragon029 wrote:I've been having more issues trying to record this damn show, but I'll keep at it - Spazinbad; the Facebook link only shows me a picture advertisement of the show segment (no video).

Sorry about that I'll amend the post for FaceBook - not being a FaceFooker I couldna see more etc.

Dragon029 · by **Dragon029** » 22 Feb 2016, 01:04

beepa wrote:60 Minutes Australia website has it, you just gotta log in. There are also some "extra minutes" with some more footage and an interesting interview or two.

People from outside of Australia can't view it. Where's the "extra minutes" part?

beepa · by **beepa** » 22 Feb 2016, 01:06

They have the "extra minutes" on Facebook now, there are two or three segments...

Dragon029 · by **Dragon029** » 22 Feb 2016, 01:56

I'll upload copies of those later, but in the mean time, here's the main feature - I have YouTube in the middle of trimming the video to the relevant segment, but until that happens you'll just have to skip forward to 35:30:

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 22 Feb 2016, 02:48

Thanks for this - are you going to replace the long version with unnecessary bits with the edited short F-35 15 minute segment? I'll wait for that if you do. Otherwise I can download the whole HOUR and then edit it to put that on my SpazzyUbend Page?

Dragon029 · by **Dragon029** » 22 Feb 2016, 02:58

Yep, YouTube has a built-in video editing program that you can use to trim videos and apply things like stabilisation. I've used that to trim the video to the relevant parts, but I'm waiting for YouTube's servers to process that change. When it happens, it'll still be the same url.

I'd change it on my computer, but the software that I use for format conversion is refusing to convert the flash video .flv file to the formats that I can use with my editing software. If YouTube hasn't fixed it by the time I get home I'll just use some alternative means to trim the video.

Edit:

It's now trimmed.