Simmo W Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Just saw this on twitter, wow, one is loud enough, but 20! Over Brisbane. Here to protect the latest iphone imports.Seriously, this probably is the majority of our airforce capacity right now. Not that it matters, the order for the 20,000 mini-drones will come in time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampster Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Talking about formation allright! Here in NZ all we see is a formation of bantams : http://www.airplane-pictures.net/images/uploaded-images/2008-2/18/10754.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simmo W Posted October 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 That was funny. So our 20 Super Hornets can invade you and take revenge on NZ for our Rugby World Cup loss? I always guffaw when I see the stats on the US airforce/navy/marines. Thousands of one type, for each branch of the armed forces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampster Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Don't under estimate the power of the nimble bantam... They travel in swarms and eat kookaburras and kangaroos for dinner. And I sure hope that now you guys are out you'll be goin' for us instead of the french. The US should have a fly in of all their fighters... I can just see the news reports after:Breaking news: 700 people have been taken to hospital because of ear damage, they were 20 km near the annual US fighter fly in. Whitness says that it was SO loud that a 70 kt gail started to pound their car park while they were having KFC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 The problem is that New Zealands fighter jets, can be out done by our trainers, both the PC-9 and the BAe 127 Hawk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampster Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Correction: we have no fighter jets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacedust Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 I always guffaw when I see the stats on the US airforce/navy/marines. Thousands of one type, for each branch of the armed forces.That was used to be. They still have hundreds of F-16's and F-18's, but the remaining F-15's and the whole F-22 order don't reach the 200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 What about the F-35s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simmo W Posted October 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Wikipedia says only 13 f35s have been built for testing. Aren't those Superhornets the stop-gap before Oz gets our F35s? Ha, I hear they'll be awhile coming, so by then you'll be able to buy hundreds of these on EBay (PayPal preferred)http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_Avenger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Nice. Yes the Super Hornet is our stop-gap fighter. But the F-35 shouldn't be too far away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Garcia Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 We have nice planes and Pilots in Colombia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampster Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 That's a familiar sight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namaui Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 (edited) At least someone still flies (or crashes) those pretty delta-winged Mirages.EDIT: Actually, I believe those are some variant of the Israeli Kfir given the little "scoop" ahead of the vertical stabilizer. Edited October 22, 2011 by namaui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola_M Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 (edited) Seriously, this probably is the majority of our airforce capacity right now. Not that it matters, the order for the 20,000 mini-drones will come in time.Never mind, no doubt you'll soon be awash with multiple F35s once the UK defence ministry takes delivery of theirs and then finds they've got:a ) nothing left to fly them off (ships mothballed/airbases closed)b ) no-one left on the payroll to fly em (savage defence cuts)c ) everyone who IS left is either in Iraq, Afghanistan or........Libya.... they'll be desperate to offload em.Mark my words, the "drones" Sir ordered may be a bit larger than you expected..... Edited October 24, 2011 by Nicola_M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simmo W Posted October 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 good one Nicola! Hadn't thought of that. What about a swap, a couple of hardly used Collins Class diesel powered submarines (just don't ask why they'rehardly used), for your F35s. Still, it'd take us 5 yrs to recruit and train enough pilots, only to have them all poached by the airlines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 At least someone still flies (or crashes) those pretty delta-winged Mirages.EDIT: Actually, I believe those are some variant of the Israeli Kfir given the little "scoop" ahead of the vertical stabilizer.The French also have a large fleet of those pretty Mirages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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