I wonder if the text you’ve bolded above is referring to the Super Hornet – which we know was pitched with the +20% thrust EPE engine upgrade – or another contender?

It’s a great shot. A larger version is available at Airliners.net.

Interesting. I wonder if it’ll be ready in time for China’s first indigenous carrier.

Nice camo scheme.

Its the new EADS KC-117 stealth tanker…. :rolleyes:

I lol’d.

There are fisheries protection vessels down there too?

I ask because the activities of Japanese whalers have often crossed into the EEZ extending from Australia’s territorial claim on Antarctica. The position of the Japanese government – like most nations not recognising said territorial claim – is that there is no such EEZ and Australia’s response appears to have been to look the other way.

So if Britain actually does enforce (in practice as well as theory) the EEZ extending from its territorial claim that’s very interesting indeed.

Very slick. Pity the the footage isn’t 720p+ or it’d be good desktop wallpaper material.

In Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising an Aussie P-3 reports being shot at by a sub-launched SAM. I remember this because it’s the only mention Australia rates in the entire novel. 😀