Eh? How is it that you have the power to move entire topics onto other threads, Brian? Are you socialists taking over this debate site too? How long before you ban me on this one as well?Brian Ross ( I think) wrote
Again, this does not belong in a thread about nuclear weapons IMO so I have moved it here, where it belongs.
Which is another way of saying that you spent five or ten minutes on Google and Bing trying to find any reference to the crash, and since you could not find anything, it must not have happened. I did happen, Brian.Briney wrote
But there is no record of this crash into Sydney Harbour, Bogan.
The Australian people expect our highly paid public service officials responsible for projects costing tens of billions of dollars to be right almost all of the time. Mistakes can be made, but not the same mistake, over and over, and over again. The initial mistake of purchasing the F-111, a drawing board plane of unknown final cost was a huge mistake but a forgivable one, since we had never been in such a position before and we simply trusted a normally very trustworthy friend an ally. But the subsequent purchase of the FA-18 was criminal negligence worthy of somebody being put in front of a firing squad, and I really mean that literally. Then to repeat the same mistake with the F-35, which is Australia's largest ever defence purchase? Are the lunatics running the asylum in DoD, Brian?Briney wrote
What I did was point out that the decisions made on the information available, AT THE TIME, was more than adequate, Bogan. Something you refuse to accept, applying 100% perfect hindsight to the problem. I am unsure why you assume that every decision made by everyone has to be 100% correct, all the time.
Scuttling our magnificent FFG-7 frigates to be used as dive wrecks and fishing reefs is another case of criminal negligence. If there is one thing world war 2 should have taught us, it is that so called "obsolete" class A war machines can be absolutely essential when it comes to winning a serious war. Disposing of very expensive and still very capable weapon systems only one generation out of date is insanity.
Of course you do not want to debate this subject with me, Briney. What I write makes so much sense that you know that probably all of our readers agree with me. What I write simply follows the three laws of logic and reason. What you write is just arse covering exercises meant to cover the criminal incompetence of your public service mates.Briney wrote
Reject what you like, Bogan. All it proves is that your views are so entrenched there is no point in continue to discuss the matter with you. Your head is so far up your arse that it will never see daylight.
Oh, and another thing. Youtube has a video on the "Ten Worst French Aircraft" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwlrMVYZ_EE&t=848s which the video described as "a Ford attack helicopter at Lamborghini prices."
It goes on, "in 2013 prices, the cost of a Tiger was US $49 million dollars a pop, US$14 million dollars more than the far superior Apache. It is hard to know how they (the Australians) could have got it so wrong. Whatever the reason, it ended up as a very expensive way to not buy Apaches."
Sack them all and replace them with their tea ladies, Brian.
