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Home » Fire for Effect » Friday — Fire for Effect

Friday — Fire for Effect

Canada buys Russian kit
Top 5 next-​​gen shoot­ers
So remind me… why did we decom­mis­sion the F-​​111?
Awesome: Liquid body armor could ‘turn you into Batman’

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From Ares: Aussies prove the ‘Varks are still cool

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  1. ErrolC says:
    August 9, 2008 at 5:17 am

    You realise that the Aussies are retir­ing the F-​​111s? That was their last con­ver­sion course for air­crew.
    I’m glad that I’ve seen them do sev­eral dump-​​and-​​burns, it’s a great stunt.
    http://​www​.air​force​.gov​.au/​a​i​r​c​r​a​f​t​/​f​1​1​1​.​htm

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  2. Curtis says:
    August 9, 2008 at 11:57 pm

    Is it just me, are or Varks just flat out sexy.

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  3. Old Crusty Chief says:
    August 10, 2008 at 7:43 am

    Re: Why did we retire the ‘Varks?
    Multiple choice:
    a. Cold War Victory Dividends/Santayana’s Syllogism
    b. Petty Politics
    c. Boys-​​in-​​Blue Craving New Toys
    d. Kreskin’s Theorem (“In the future…”)
    e. Ignorance
    Choose one of the above rea­sons for decom­mis­sion­ing the F-​​111/​EF-​​111 and defend your posi­tion in 250 words or less. Points will be deducted for histri­on­ics, shoddy gram­mar, and poor spelling.
    Cheers,
    Chief B.

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  4. Arcane says:
    August 10, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    Chief B.,
    None of the above. The main­te­nance and man­power required to keep them fly­ing was too high, so they retired them. The same rea­son we retired F-​​4 Wild Weasels.

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  5. Roy Smith says:
    August 10, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    George HW Bush,Sr.,Bill Clinton,George W Bush,Jr.,Dick Cheney,Donald Rumsfeld,& the rest of the Council for Foreign Relations NWO Neo-​​Con “Artists” really f**ked us all in the arse when they grossly emas­cu­lated our military(which really should be con­sid­ered an act of trea­son for what they did).Well the Bear has woken up & is on the move.Today it’s Georgia,tomorrow it’s Azerbaijan & Turkmenistan.Pretty soon,Russia,with for­mer Soviet Central Asian Shanghai Cooperation Organization mem­ber states,Iran,& Pakistan will be able to throw up an effec­tive block­ade over Afghanistan.

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  6. 600rr says:
    August 11, 2008 at 5:33 am

    F-​​111s can’t pro­tect themselves.

    Reply
  7. Old Crusty Chief says:
    August 11, 2008 at 6:32 am

    Re: Arcane
    I’d ven­ture that the main­te­nance costs are kinda irrel­e­vant if you don’t have some­thing to replace it. We’re left with just the very tired Prowlers until the EA-​​18s are pro­duced in suf­fi­cient num­bers to assume the mis­sion.
    It seems to my fee­ble old brain that we’re very much will­ing to spend a king’s ran­som in man­power and main­te­nance for those air­craft we like, e.g., the B-​​2, but are not will­ing to do so for oth­ers even when they’re needed.
    Cheers,
    Chief B.

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  8. Sonic Monkey says:
    August 11, 2008 at 7:42 am

    “Canada buys Russian kit” is a mis-​​nomer; the Canadians are just leas­ing Russian heli­copters until it can get its own Chinooks or other helos into the Afghan theatre.

    Reply
  9. Ed says:
    August 11, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    The rea­sons the F-​​111 was retired are for the fol­low­ing rea­sons in my opin­ion.
    1) The orig­i­nal usage for the F-​​111 was as a light bomber. Something that was able to sneak in low and fast and hit its tar­gets with pre­ci­sion. The vari­able geom­e­try wings allowed for greater speed. We are design­ing more of our air­craft for a dual role as both Air Superiority and a ground attack role, mean­ing they can fight their way in, hit the tar­get, and fight their way out, some­thing the F-​​111 could not do.
    2) Variable Geometry wings are nice but are being phased out. The only ones left are the Iranian F-​​14s, and the Russian made Su-​​24, Mig-​​23/​27s. The design, while nice, has lost to the Delta wing shape.
    3) It didn’t have stealth and that seems to be what needs to be with every com­bat air­craft we cre­ate from now forward.

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  10. ah ha ha says:
    September 11, 2008 at 4:26 am

    it is a shame that the F-​​111s are going to be retired because all it took was for a cou­ple of boffins in the defence force to con­vince the thed defence min­is­ter Dr. Brendan Nelson, some­one who has had no mil­i­tary expe­ri­ence at all, that man has truly stuffed Australia as they are replac­ing the F-​​111s with F/​A-​​18F Super Hornet fight­ers until the JSF F-​​35 Lightning II is com­pleted and the only coun­try that has the Super Hornet is the USA… it makes me won­der why they were the only coun­try to have them as a part of their air force

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