Super Hornets are not even liquid nails-just a 'gap filler'!

Even having some liquid nails doesn't make a sound structure. You need proper material for that, like concrete, steel, wood. Even the new Boeing aircraft are finding problems with their carbon structure (to make it lighter). Because modern fighters like the Hornets are using carbon fibre structures it is causing airframe weakness. In a fighter you want toughness, not weakness. Need I say more?

What happened to titanium? It is widely used and not just on the SR-71 Blackbirds which were innately tough.

We have been going downhill for years yet we fail to realize it. We stopped thinking big in the 1960s (and 50s) when some of the best ever fighters were designed and made. One last fighter which was recent was the F22 but is it made out of tough enough material?

If I was to make a true superiority fighter I would not make it politically correct. I would ensure its airframe is the toughest (prioritize toughness over fuel consumption and power to weight ratios) possible, its engines were the best in terms of the largest amount of power but would be fuel efficient but not too much so the engines can perform mega powerfully (what are jet fighters for???) . You want it to have reliability and easier maintenance and less parts but not sacrificing technology. If you had a fleet of 300 (or 400 fighters an optimum for Australia) fighters you would want them to have the highest level of serviceability so maintenance does not 'ground' them. Essentially an aircraft that does not require high levels of maintenance which enables them to be ready at a moments notice. Really this is about having more aircraft available at any one time than not, and reducing your cost.

If a part on an aircraft needs to be repaired or maintained just replace it and send the part to a workshop so the aircraft can 'stay in the air' longer.

Read Eric's blog on the super bug.

Obama and Democrats soft on Defence

What does Obama do? He strips defence funding and at the same time hands the money to public health for illegal aliens.
The F-22 has not been around for 20 or 30 years. It has practically just entered service, and the original budget was for around 1500 units. With only 175 units budgetted for what is the going to be the primary air defence of the United States?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/21/senate-beats-back-militar_n_242135.html

President Obama won a major victory in the Senate Tuesday in a dogfight that has major, long-term implications for his agenda.

The Senate, by a vote of 58-40, approved an amendment proposed by Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to strip $1.75 billion in funding for the F-22 fighter. Levin worked hand in hand to kill the F-22 money with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

"There was an extensive effort by the White House," said Levin. "The president really needed to win this vote, not just in terms of the merits of the F-22 issue itself, but in terms of the reform agenda."

The vote had become a proxy fight against the power of the military-industrial complex, a term coined by President Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell address.

And here is where he just gives money away....

Boat People Warning

So Mr Rudd, who is not a genuine asylum seeker? I am sure you will let them all in. The Navy is welcoming them with open arms and more than willing to provide humanitarian assistance so these people can reach Australia. When will the Navy start intervening and send them home? Oh yeah I forgot, this is not Japan. We are 'obligated' and have a duty of care to these people. Right. Well after safely housing them why can't we send them to Nauru? Oh yeah.....your feel goof lefty buddies think it is nice if they stay here.

Warning on wave of boat people

Tom Allard in Kuala Lumpur and Yuko Narushima

June 30, 2009

INDONESIAN authorities are bracing for a huge influx of boat people, anticipating as many as 10,000 asylum-seekers are waiting in Malaysia to transit through the archipelago and on to Australia.

This estimate was backed by a Malaysian group that deals with unauthorised immigrants. An Australian Government source warned of the potential for a similar influx to the thousands who began arriving in Australia from the late 1990s.

About 1500 asylum-seekers have arrived in Indonesia this year and registered for refugee status, almost all travelling by boat from Malaysia. Another 1500 are believed to have arrived and have not registered.

Indonesian police intelligence suggests between 7000 and 10,000 more people are waiting in Malaysia to make the journey once their passage is organised by people-smugglers.

"It could be 10,000," said senior commissioner Eko Danianto, head of the people smuggling unit at the Indonesian National Police.

Read the rest here

Look what 'Cool Kevin' says here........ another porky perhaps?

Good Helicopter Soldiers video

More high tech toys- Trophy system by Rafael

A nice toy, portable mortar

As I predicted, Labor is soft on immigration, and getting softer, alarmingly!

Biggest boatload to stretch detention centre

Australia is having increased amounts of arrivals of illegal immigrants and all because Labor abonded TPVs (temporary protection visas) and the Pacific Solution from the Howard Government. When Australian politics encountered the 'children overboard' affair, I knew then that Labor and the Greens (and Democrats which are no longer) would all support an 'open immigration policy' for Australia. They forget those who have come legally and followed due process.
Instead we have lawyers and communists subverting our system (and Government) in order to allow potential terrorists into Australia. These people pay to come here (economic 'refugees'). Now Labor rewards them.
Stop the Labour scourge. Let's have a double dissolution and end this pathetic example of 'leadership' Rudd professes to. Kevin Rudd wants to subjugate Australia to China and the UN.

What a lot of people do not realize is that the huge cost involved of processing these people, using our Patrol Boats to pick them up and ferry them in, and then handing out money to them here. This is not about 'feeling good' because you are taking care of those who can pay to come here illegally, but about the huge cost incurred because of the Government's soft position, and getting softer. Isn't the getting softer policy going to equate to getting expensive? Yes, more will come, and expose us to more costs as the Government votes to remove 'burdens' on those who come here.

Opposition spared embarrassment on asylum bill

Boatload of 190 asylum seekers headed to Australia

Navy picks up suspected illegal boat near Christmas Island



White Paper Released

I haven't really posted much on here since the A330 issue where Kevin Rudd has been tearing up our military. They even knocked the 4th Air Warfare Destroyer on the head and won't build a nuclear powered submarine that could stay under water undetectable to satellite.
But it seems that Labor is going to cut Defence spending by simply forcing Defence to make cuts to 'save' money. Bases will close, and maintenance and equipment will be mothballed. Its the only way, as in the Clinton years, that the military will be able to save money. Kevin Rudd and his Government are very sneaky, saying they will maintain 3% growth in Defence spending, but unfortunately it seems that Defence will have to 'save' money. If I find an article that deals with this funding lie in more detail and explanation than I have I will post it, or let me know.

Smokescreen obscures detail of cuts

Defence Whitepaper Website

Brand Rudd's fantasy Defence White Paper

Experts shoot holes in Kevin Rudd's defence white paper

Kevin Rudd to announce Australia's biggest military build-up since World War II