First thing you need to realise is that that video is NOT a genuine FIRST hand recording.

Its actually being recorded by a camera being held too close to a TV or computer monitor, hence why it cant focus.
You can actually see reflections in the lefthand side of the image… a hand with a camera?

At one stage in the video you see the whole edge of the screen and heaps of white light above it.

You certainly cant see any detail like a cargo door or ramp.
Nor anything which gives away what sort of helicopter we are looking at.

The inside shot (?) which is a just a jumble of blurry colours reveals some letters and a number…. ******TIES ECHO 93t (93 tons?)

Just looks like a load of rubbish….

And this is “new”?
Come on guys this is not something which suddenly started to happen NOW, but has been happening for a long time.

Look at the USA and how many TRILLIONS in money which the military couldnt account for. (A good doco about US Military wastage is IRAQ for Sale).

Australia is the same and dont spend half the money the UK does.

This sort of thing can be attributed to lazyness, blackmarketeering and contractors who rip off the government with over priced goods.

Things forgotten in a warehouse? WOW… again NOTHING NEW.
You guys obviously have never been in defence or worked in a logistical position?
If something is bought and put in a warehouse and the guys who ordered it or were involved in the project are posted to a new location, or are deployed overseas who will know about it?

Poor management of assests is commonplace in Defence.

Different computer systems? Nothing new… every unit/section wants to have their “own” way of doing things or thinks they can do it better. Its the same when buying equipment.

I dont know what sort of program the UK uses to manage its logistics system, but the aussie one is ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. The problems are too numerous to explain, but the search function is not easy to use and usually brings up 10000items as you cant break it down. Because people cant find what they are looking for, they then fill out a form to bring the item they are looking for “online”. This then means the exact same item appears in the system under 6 or 7 NSN (stock codes) all with DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS.

Its all very well to say that a global company knows ho much stock it has and why cant the military get it right? Trouble is the military loves to use its own descriptions for an off the shelf item, which in civvy land would leave a lot of heads being scratched!

Some projects take years before they are completed, a typical posting is 2yrs or 3yrs for officers. What happens to that project when everyone is posted out or goes overseas on a deployment? The project stalls and fails or takes double the money because the next person to manage it wants to re-invent the wheel or has no clue what he/she is doing.

Which came first?

The virgin always comes first 😀

Well since China built its own J11… er SU35… is it possible China “aquired” an F-111 wreck from somewhere???

Imagine a reverse engineered F-111 in service in China!

I said it before in another thread… this obcession from F35 fanboys its pretty sickly. Is it possible to have a thread with out reference to the grossly over priced, well behind in its schedule F35 ?

This “hard on” for the F35 by some is pretty sickly..

But then again the money pit seems endless doesnt it?

If there rendering is correct in that link, then they are some very huge doors opening one way!
I wouldve expected the middle doors to be hinged in the middle of the fuse.. splitting the bays into two seperate ones.

Cant imagine how much drag it would create opening one of both those doors at once? not to mention wil it limit manouvering?