F-111 fleet flies into safety doubts

"L'acrobat" wrote in message
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The AP-3C Orions are due to retire around 2025, you would expect
Global Hawk
(or follow ons) to start supplimenting them by around 2015/2020 if
they were
to replace them by 2025

I'll be interested to see what is going to replace the P3's. More P3's
or will they look at
Nimrod again? Getting the TAP3's to keep the hours down on the
operational fleet seems
to have been a very good idea.

The CO

The CO wrote:
I'll be interested to see what is going to replace the P3's. More P3's
or will they look at Nimrod again?

A lot of forces operate the P-3 so the issue is not unique to the RAAF.
Where are you going to get at least equal capbility when it's time to
replace them.

Boeing looked at doing a Nimrod job on the 757 but nobody would pay for
the development. I wonder if there is sufficient development in the
E-10A to make a "P-10" worthwhile?

Lockmart have looked at an ASW version of the C-130J. Could they even
build more Orions?

Perhaps the P-7 could be revived?

Cheers
David

"David Bromage" wrote in message
.. .
The CO wrote:
I'll be interested to see what is going to replace the P3's. More P3's
or will they look at Nimrod again?

A lot of forces operate the P-3 so the issue is not unique to the RAAF.
Where are you going to get at least equal capbility when it's time to
replace them.

Boeing looked at doing a Nimrod job on the 757 but nobody would pay for
the development. I wonder if there is sufficient development in the
E-10A to make a "P-10" worthwhile?

Lockmart have looked at an ASW version of the C-130J. Could they even
build more Orions?

Perhaps the P-7 could be revived?

If you were starting a project now, you'd probably look at the B767 airframe
as the basis for purely logistic reasons.

L'acrobat wrote:
"David Bromage" wrote in message
.. .
A lot of forces operate the P-3 so the issue is not unique to the RAAF.
Where are you going to get at least equal capbility when it's time to
replace them.

If you were starting a project now, you'd probably look at the B767
airframe
as the basis for purely logistic reasons.

I know the 767 will be the airframe for a lot of tankers, but it seems
overly big for an ASW platform. That's why I suggested the 757. It will
be the basis of the E-10A, on which the big radar is in the right place
for a torpedo bay. But you'd use the same engines and avionics whether
it was a 757 or 767, which is the main logistic advantage. They have a
common type rating anyway.

Cheers
David

"David Bromage" wrote in message
.. .
L'acrobat wrote:
"David Bromage" wrote in message
.. .
A lot of forces operate the P-3 so the issue is not unique to the RAAF.
Where are you going to get at least equal capbility when it's time to
replace them.

If you were starting a project now, you'd probably look at the B767
airframe
as the basis for purely logistic reasons.

I know the 767 will be the airframe for a lot of tankers, but it seems
overly big for an ASW platform. That's why I suggested the 757. It will
be the basis of the E-10A, on which the big radar is in the right place
for a torpedo bay. But you'd use the same engines and avionics whether
it was a 757 or 767, which is the main logistic advantage. They have a
common type rating anyway.

Apparently the Boeing 737 is the proposed MMMA airframe