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Obi Wan Russell
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Aye, it is. However, i wish the super hornets were cancelled. We should retain out F111 fleet.

The F-111s are worn out and very expensiveto keep flying. Retaining those examples in service beyond their current OSD would not only be prohibitively expensive, it could well prove impossible to extend them anyway. To keep any kind of F-111 fleet operational to bridge the gap until the F-35s arrive might mean buying second hand airframes from the US, and by the time they were brought up to standard the F-35s would be ready anyway.