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It seems unlikely the ADF would operate STOVL F-35Bs off its forthcoming LHDs. (Lockheed Martin)
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The C-17A is a very impressive aircraft. Not only is it big – bigger than anything the RAAF has ever operated previously – but its ability to carry a load of up to 75 tonnes over significant ranges at jet speeds offers the ADF a whole new way of doing business.
Not only do the four C-17s have the effective lift capacity of a squadron of 12 C-130s, but, taking into account the fact that four C-17s can’t be in as many places at once as 12 Hercs, 36SQN does so with about half the number of pilots, and correspondingly fewer loadmasters and maintainers as well, bringing much needed efficiencies to an Air Force which has struggled to retain people in recent years.
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