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Offline expat

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A sad sad day :(
« on: December 17, 2010, 10:10:09 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsl8P6gBwnc&feature=sub

Our idiotic govt has really messed up this time :(
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2010, 10:34:13 AM »
Quote from: expat on December 17, 2010, 10:10:09 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsl8P6gBwnc&feature=sub

Our idiotic govt has really messed up this time :(

They will replace it with a stealth type Harrier.
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2010, 10:42:05 AM »
Not when you consider it's being replaced with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7_PPE-8nk

Pretty smart move I'd say  :salute
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2010, 10:55:47 AM »
Quote from: uptown on December 17, 2010, 10:42:05 AM
Not when you consider it's being replaced with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7_PPE-8nk

Pretty smart move I'd say  :salute

That is the one i was talking about...could not think what the name was. 
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2010, 11:02:26 AM »
JSF owns all
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2010, 11:30:05 AM »
lol I kept thinkiing J35 but it is the F35.

Read about the replacement about 4 years back.
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2010, 11:49:17 AM »
Almost as sad as the F14 kicking the bucket.  :(
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2010, 02:29:17 PM »
Wont they need a bunch of new Carriers?
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2010, 02:46:19 PM »
  Wont they launch them the same way? Id think it would save fuel.
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2011, 11:23:31 PM »
The harrier should not have been decomissioned until the JSF-35 which my own country is buying. Had arrived
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2011, 02:07:45 AM »
Wow, a subsonic, non-stealthy dinosaur is replaced by a Mach+, more versitile & stealthy airframe.
Excuse me while I DGAD.
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2011, 06:12:54 AM »
Quote from: Plawranc on January 05, 2011, 11:23:31 PM
The harrier should not have been decomissioned until the JSF-35 which my own country is buying. Had arrived
Yes, because Australia is knee deep in a tough war right now.
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2011, 06:57:26 AM »
Quote from: Spikes on January 06, 2011, 06:12:54 AM
Yes, because Australia is knee deep in a tough war right now.

Yep, we are indeed, been fighting in Afghanistan since the beginning of the conflict there, our entire special forces regiment is over there. Were one of the first armies of the coalition in on operation Iraqi freedom.



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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2011, 07:27:15 AM »
Quote from: IamSalem on December 17, 2010, 11:49:17 AM
Almost as sad as the F14 kicking the bucket.  :(

now THAT plane is truly an icon. doesnt isreal still use some?
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Re: A sad sad day :(
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2011, 10:31:16 AM »
     Israel never used the F-14, Iran got a couple.  The Israelis liked the F-15 though  :aok
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