From Caribou to Spartan

Uplifting result at last

Despite Australian Aviation and sister publication ADBR predicting that the Project AIR 8000 Phase 2 Battlefield Airlifter effort to finally replace the Caribou might fall victim to the federal government’s plans to realise a budget surplus at any cost next year, the project seems to have successfully navigated the budget minefield of razors and axes relatively unscathed and is now moving forward.

In the lead-up to the federal budget the ADF forged ahead with the project throughout 2011 and a December 19 2011 US Defense Cooperation Security Agency notification declared that a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of the C-27J to Australia was being considered by Congress. \\