Yes, it's a bit odd, but I wouldn't bet that the same people will get them, so they at least would be jobless. I'm also not reading between the lines of a rumour to determine the new airframes will be built/assembled in Australia, especially if there's a rush and long disapproving memories of building in Brisbane
You are talking integration problems and that is highly expensive. It's all software. Just look at the RAN SH-2G(A) Seasprite fiasco, with the RAN demanding capabilities that weren't possible at the time. And before all the Aussie posters get all bolshie, that was the actual cause, not the contractors inability as claimed by the Aussie govt. They had to blame anyone but themselves for a $1.7 billion balls up.
How many qualified helicopter maintainers, etc are there in Australia? I would imagine it’s a relatively small pool and such would be relatively employable across the industry.
New companies simply just means a shirt change for Monday. I know blokes who have worked for 3 - 4 different companies now; haven't really changed location....
Tell me about it, every time a prime contractor changed in certain sectors I started getting cold calls from recruiters. Most stuff seems to stay in the same place but some shuffles around, usually towards the state with the most political sway at the time, (most votes to be bought) pretty much WA and QLD at the moment.
Sounds like my sister's career. Civil engineer, mostly working on contracts for local government. I recall her telling me once (laughing as she did so) when I asked where her new job was based that she had the same desk as for her two previous employers.
You are forgetting the F/A-18 Hornet. That was assembled at Avalon in the 80s and early 90s.
F-16 has been assembled in the Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey & S. Korea, F-15 in Japan, F-4 in Japan & the UK, & there's an F-35 final assembly line in Italy, as well as parts being made for US aircraft in multiple countries, e.g. Denmark & Norway. F-104 was built all over the place, with assembly lines in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy & Japan.
I believe Boeing will build the Loyal Wingman in Australia?
The first of 3 Aircraft is actually completed and currently undergoing ground testing but the project is only a Technology Demonstrator at this stage. The funding for the procurement of Teaming Air Vehicles for the RAAF will not kick in until about 2026, we are a very long way from the RAAF ordering them into series production.
Australian companies involved in production of the F-35 including F-35s for the RAAF.
www.f35.com
See you learn something new everyday.
From recollection, Sikorsky offered local build for UH-60M and a re-manufacturing program for the S-70A9 Blackhawks to allow us to sell that capability on the open market.
At my age it is more forgetting something new every day, not learning.
As long as you don't forget where the beer, rum, tucker and dunny are you're pretty well sorted. It also helps to call the old shelia by her right name if one wants to survive another sunrise.
It’s the well documented CRAFT disease.
