Tomahawks remain an option for the ADF in the long range strike role in the years following the decomissioning of the F111 fleet.

The money went elsewhere in the initial plan, but that does not mean there won’t be money later.

Unicorn

TVC = Thrust Vectoring Control?

Unicorn

what tirade ??:rolleyes: The F-18 is junk, if IAC had CATS rafale would be my first choice but thats not going to happen. MRCA is totally different from naval contract for carriers, why are people mixing the two is beyond me.

Yes, the F/A-18 is junk, that’s why lots of different countries that can actually afford to pay full price for it actually chose it over competing aircraft.

In fact it’s so much junk that the latest version is one of only two aircraft operational with AESA radar, is fully carrier quallified and proven in action.

Keep on thinking that it’s junk mate, and the rest of us will continue on with a rational discussion.

Unicorn

Hi Unicorn , Do you pls. have any info.& or specs. on the unselected MRV model in your thumbnail or is it a modellers conceptual idea. I followed the MRV selection up to a point, but found it hard to get info on some of the original cantidates at the time.
Yours in fear & loathing
Tiddles

The model is of HDW’s MRV 7500. It was a downsizing of HDW’s original MRV10000 which was a candidate in several competitons involving NATO members.

A surf across to Google (for MRV 7500) will turn up stuff, including a thread here on Key.

Otherwise the HDW site may have something.

Cheers

Unicorn

In the interests of keeping the thread going, here are two model shots.

One is of Canterbury as she will be, the other as she could have been (if another design had been chosen).

Unicorn

I realise that the USN fleet must consume a lot of fuel, but in the grand scheme of US usage, is it anything compared to domestic usage (vehicle fuel, power gen, domestic heating, etc.)?

Is the US self-sufficient in Uranium? Could just be replacing one dependancy for another – like the debate here about nuclear power stations. Granted, our supplier is probably a lot more realiable than the middle east!!!!

The US has some supplies however they could buy all the uranium they will ever need from one of their closest and most trusted allies, Australia.

Australia sits upon some 40% of the world’s known reserves (and a lot of the country has never been seriously surveyed),

Unicorn

Something I uncovered recently in the AIR 9000 that has been very hush hush; Down here we are to get a new “Aviation Training Vessel”. This vessel is to be a new autonomous vessel shared by Army and Navy for training of operartions on all RAN vessels. I’ve heard nothing on size or proposals but this BPC-140 looks like it would be ideal should it be offered. Though there is one other local offer I’d really like to see up and running.

Ja, its not terribly hush hush, it was the subject of some debate on Australian defence forums back in January.

The sort of vessel they are looking at is more in the realm of the US Navy’s IX-514 avation training vessel, which was the example vessel used in the presentations made to industry.

I know your all hot to trot for the Austal Multi Role Corvette, but that is a lot of ship for what is basically a training platform that won’t wander too far from Jervis Bay.

A slower version with two rather than four engines was suggested, however the two drivers are on one hand low initial acquisition cost / low through life costs and on the other minimal personnel costs.

Unicorn

nice shiny ship.

So are these 🙂