Super Hornet -- super disgrace! - National Social/Political

Air supremacy has effectively been surrendered to Asia, brilliant! Defence Minister Fitzgibbon’s reversal indicates that the disgraceful malaise of cowardice and servility expressed so vividly by former PM, Howard, also infects the present ‘Labor’ government. As an independent sovereign nation we are lost! Condemned by our fuckin’ useless, gutless, leaders to colonial servitude. MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT!

It is now abundantly clear that the nation lacks men AND WOMEN of character, mettle, skill and real leadership qualities in government, regardless of which party is elected. What a thorough travesty and shame this nation has to endure! Like it or not every Aussie has become an international laughing stock, never before has the nation had to endure such shame!

Every Australian is stained by the cowardice of our ‘leaders,’ we have become insignificant fleas accommodating the whims of larger nations – we are perceived as nothing more than a piece of convenient real estate for yank bases and a hole in the ground to feed resource hungry nations. A fitting reward for the world’s most cowardly nation.

Do not complain of your lot Aussie; you have earned your minuscule share of the billions that are pilfered from the nation yearly -- you pathetic bunch of servile nothings, oi, oi, oink!

The issue of OUR national security has been surrendered to the fuckin’ yanks yet every retard is aware the yanks only pursue their own interests! What amount should the yanks pay the nation for transforming us into a high priority nuclear target? Answer that, Fitzgibbon, you miserable excuse for a defence minister!

We were all aware of the pressure you were under to toe the American line but YOU caved like the good new Aussie male that you are -- I would spit if my mouth wasn’t so dry from rage!

Go and get yourselves well and truly fucked -- the lot of you!

It is unfortunate that senior Defence leadership has been de-skilled so much that they can't do any analysis past what a Boeing sales rep shows them.

Fancy avionics alone does not a combat jet make. Here is some interesting reading on Australia's prize acquisition:

-Bill Sweetman, Just How Super is the F/A-18E/F?, Interavia Business & Technology, April 1, 2000-

-The Navy and Boeing have intensified a propaganda campaign. Unfortunately, the campaign is likely to damage their credibility in the long term, because it focuses on a few basic statements which don't mean anything like as much as the casual reader is meant to think.

For example: "The airplane meets all its key performance parameters." This is true. In 1998 -- as it became clear that the Super Hornet was slower, and less agile at transonic speeds than the C/D -- the Navy issued an "administrative clarification" which declared that speed, acceleration and sustained turn rate were not, and had never been, Key Performance Parameters (KPP) for the Super Hornet. Apparently, some misguided people thought that those were important attributes for a fighter.-

-Bill Sweetman, Watch Your Six Maverick, Interavia Business & Technology, February 1, 2000-

-The Navy's operational evaluation (Opeval) of the Super Hornet ended in November, and the report is expected late in February. It will probably find the Super Hornet to be operationally effective and suitable, because the impact of any other recommendation would be devastating, but the Navy will have to do some deft manoeuvring to avoid charges that the report is a whitewash.-

-Bill Sweetman, Super Hornet gathers speed, but critics keep pressure on, Interavia Business & Technology, March 1, 1999-

-The Pentagon has conceded that the MiG-29 and Su-27 can out-accelerate and out-turn all variants of the F/A-18 in most operating regimes, and that the E/F in turn cannot stay up with the older C/D through much of the envelope.

Navy data from early 1996 (published in a General Accounting Office report) showed that the new aircraft was expected to have a lower thrust-to-weight ratio than the late-production (Lot XIX) F/A-18C/D with the General Electric F404-GE-402 engine. Its maximum speed in a typical air-to-air configuration would be Mach 1.6, versus Mach 1.8 for the smaller aircraft. In the heart of the air-combat envelope, between 15,000 and 20,000 feet and at transonic speed, the Lot XIX aircraft would hold a specific excess power (Ps) of 300 ft/sec out to Mach 1.2, while its larger descendant could not hold the same Ps above Mach 1.0.-

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