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For 6th Sqn which transfer all her Super Hornets to the 1st Sqn who will become the more big FS with 24 fighters others have about 15 F-18A.
First Growlers arrive in Australia
Two EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) arrived at Avalon, near Melbourne, today, to make the type’s public debut in Australia. The two aircraft arrived to take part in the Australian International Airshow that will take place at Avalon this weekend. A total of four EA-18Gs arrived in country last week when they were delivered to RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland.
Just months after the last four RAAF F/A-18Fs arrived in Australia in late 2011, Australia voiced interest in acquiring 12 additional Super Hornets and exercising its option to upgrade 12 of the pre-wired F/A-18F+ aircraft into EA-18Gs. Of the original 24 Super Hornets purchased by Australia, the last 12 were built with EA-18G wiring and waveguides installed out to the wing-fold, blanked antenna cut-outs, and structural provisions for equipment racks.
A formal request for 12 EA-18G modification kits was announced in May 2012, with plans to convert six Super Hornets into Growlers beginning in 2015, and then to convert the remainder in the early 2020s. Within a year of that announcement, however, the Australian government changed course and decided to retain its 24 Super Hornets and acquire 12 new-build Growlers. Notification of sale was announced on February 28, 2013, with an estimated cost of $3.7 billion (US). The sale further included AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARMs) and the new AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM).
In June 2014, Northrop Grumman began work on the first RAAF Growler’s subassembly, known as a shipset, which includes the center/aft fuselage section, twin vertical tails, and associated subsystems, at the company’s El Segundo, California, facility. In April 2015, the shipset was delivered to Boeing in St Louis for final assembly. The delivery represented the 115th Growler shipset produced by Northrop Grumman and the first for an international customer. The aircraft, numbered A46-301 and designated AG-1, was rolled out on July 29, 2015.
First Growlers arrive in Australia
Two EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) arrived at Avalon, near Melbourne, today, to make the type’s public debut in Australia. The two aircraft arrived to take part in the Australian International Airshow that will take place at Avalon this weekend. A total of four EA-18Gs arrived in country last week when they were delivered to RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland.
Just months after the last four RAAF F/A-18Fs arrived in Australia in late 2011, Australia voiced interest in acquiring 12 additional Super Hornets and exercising its option to upgrade 12 of the pre-wired F/A-18F+ aircraft into EA-18Gs. Of the original 24 Super Hornets purchased by Australia, the last 12 were built with EA-18G wiring and waveguides installed out to the wing-fold, blanked antenna cut-outs, and structural provisions for equipment racks.
A formal request for 12 EA-18G modification kits was announced in May 2012, with plans to convert six Super Hornets into Growlers beginning in 2015, and then to convert the remainder in the early 2020s. Within a year of that announcement, however, the Australian government changed course and decided to retain its 24 Super Hornets and acquire 12 new-build Growlers. Notification of sale was announced on February 28, 2013, with an estimated cost of $3.7 billion (US). The sale further included AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARMs) and the new AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM).
In June 2014, Northrop Grumman began work on the first RAAF Growler’s subassembly, known as a shipset, which includes the center/aft fuselage section, twin vertical tails, and associated subsystems, at the company’s El Segundo, California, facility. In April 2015, the shipset was delivered to Boeing in St Louis for final assembly. The delivery represented the 115th Growler shipset produced by Northrop Grumman and the first for an international customer. The aircraft, numbered A46-301 and designated AG-1, was rolled out on July 29, 2015.
All delivered for mid 2017 ! and normaly the 72 F-35A for 2023 !
So since about 10 years ! 3 new types : Heavy Cargo C-17, AWACS E-7 and now EW EA-18G not big AF but compact.
PHOTOS: The RAAF's first Growler electronic attack aircraft have landed in Australia
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Airbus Optimistic On Australia’s Tigers As Bell, Boeing Circle
Mar 1, 2017 | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
Airbus
GEELONG, Australia — is expressing confidence in the future of its Tiger attack helicopter in Australian service, even as Canberra considers early replacement of the type.
While Bell and , sensing an opportunity, spend on marketing their attack helicopters to Australia, Airbus’s local unit says the country’s Tiger operators are satisfied.
Reliability of the Tiger in Australian service has improved considerably, according to Airbus figures, but it has not reached a level that the Australian Army is likely to regard as adequate for the future.
An average of 3.5 Tigers were serviceable in 2015, among 16 Tigers in squadron service and 22 in the whole fleet. But availability is now about 50%, says Tony Fraser, head of Airbus’s Australian and Pacific business. A further 25% are available at four hours’ notice, Fraser said at the Avalon Australian International Airshow at Geelong.
According to Boeing, an average of 88% of U.S. Army AH-64Es are ready for missions.
A year ago an Australian defense white paper scheduled Tiger replacement in the mid-2020s, even though the helicopters were still two months from becoming finally operational, after protracted delays. Worse, in August the defense department said it would consider scrapping a planned project aimed at improving Tiger sustainability. That implied an even earlier out-of-service date.
Smelling Tiger blood, Bell and Boeing are circling. Bell is exhibiting the Viper and Boeing the AH-64E at the air show.
Looking toward the then mid-2020s replacement date, the department told Aviation Week in August 2016 that manned and unmanned systems and combinations of them would be considered.
Fraser says the Tiger is deployable and the army is happy with the aircraft. It has a bright future in Australian service, he adds.
The defense department was also positive about the Tiger in 2015, before its change of heart, calling it the best attack helicopter in the world for its weight.
Fraser points especially to the maneuverability of the aircraft, which Australia uses in the armed reconnaissance role.
Airbus has also had difficulty in a project to supply the Australian Army with originally 46, now 47, helicopters of the MRH90 battlefield version of the . Availability for the MRH90 is just under 70%, Fraser says. The company is working to reduce the maintenance burden.
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Let it rain with pictures then!
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