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Originally posted by waynos
reply to post by Fang
That's why I. Was so amazed fang, there I was thinking "ooh, without the NImrod it means that those Sentinels are going to be overworked, I wonder if we will buy more of those?" HA, what strange but logical fool am I!
Has anyone taken a blowtorch to those 1957 vintage Canberra airframes yet?
Originally posted by kilcoo316
The Nimrod program should never have been started to begin with. The right decision almost 2 decades too late.
An airframe based on a 1st generation jet airliner, with inherent issues being carried forward over 50 years for low speed, low level patrolling.
WHAT THE F**K WERE THEY THINKING?!?!
Even a 1st or 2nd year uni engineering student could see that is a bad idea.
They would have been much safer having the necessary kit modular and usable within the A330 MRTT from the start. Buy more A330s, force the unit price down, and have a larger and more flexible force as a result.