You will, as long as you raise import tarriffs and stop cutting taxes to the rich!!!maybe combine ANG and AFRes.Savings by cutting a chain of command?
Retire&Selling Enterprisea good idea( Look good with an Aussie flag on it!)

Buy Boeing Tankers and more C-130J and tie high numbers of aircraft to jobs.

Look at streching the C-17 to help retire some C-5 bad players

Maybe make the Coast guard a part of your navy and call it the Home fleet, hand drug interdiction solely to customs

Indeed. wont be long before they are cut, and all the savings made to keep them will be for nothing

I love how the idea of defeating the F-35 with tactics meets no response…..

In the history of human endeavour that is aerial warfare, nothing is guaranteed. NVAF shoots down high numbers of advanced aircraft with obsolete planes, flak and SAMs, USAF uses better pilots to defeat MiG15s in Korea, Israel uses kinetic warfare to defeat forces of 5 nations etc etc

Fact is, you give a group of highly motivated people a challange, in defence of there country, and they will find ways to fight back.

An Advantage is only an advantage if used correctly

OK….. when an amraam is fired, and its internal radar comes on any aircraft witha RWR will know…..
and the F-35, depite what you say, is not INVISIBLE.

If a F-117 can be shot down with obsolete equipment, how about a proper defence net with AWACS and decent fighters?

Or the enemy denies you the opportunity to engage except when your about to depart the area on bingo?

Or decides to chuck 30 aircraft at your refueling point? numbers and tactics do have there advantages.
these ideas may or may not work. but not for an instant are the F-35s going to walk away like james bond, with a drink and woman in hand. some units WILL suffer losses.

To be fair, your previous Labor government wasnt opposed either to using the razor(or to be rude to its citizens!)

does Britain need a Falklands type event to restore some justification for its Armed forces?

Dear Mr Robben,

Please explain to us how the EF or the Rafale will get to the merge with the F-35. Why would the F-35 choose to merge with in the euro canards sensor range, when it can merge from the rear or take a side shot? How will the EF Rafale escape the 1st shot? even if you could out turn it, the stealth will ensure that the F-35 engages on favorable terms. How will the Legacy fighters detect the F-35 when they are out classed in every sensor area, including IRST?

i seem to recall a Luftwaffe tactic used by the F-4F crews before they had AMRAAM, where they wore the opposition down, forcing them to uselessly waste there shots, then knocking the opposition(F-15,16,18etc) off at close range, or when they bugged out.

A good aircraft isnt bulletproof against a wily opponent with abit of bravery and good tactics who refuses to let you engage in your preferred envelope!

are any other countries interested in the bays?