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These reports are full off wrong assumptions. A few points I want to make.
http://globallankanews.com/news.php?viewStory=6803 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/070812/Columns/sitreport.html A properly maintained weapons platform can soldier on for almost ever. There is no such thing as `technically dead` for an aircraft in the absence of a threat. example 1 The mighty B-52. All of the airframes still flying and delivering payloads in Iraq and Afghanistan are 1950s and 60s vintage. Some of the pilots and crew have had their FATHERS fly the very same machine. In some cases even their grandfathers when in the service. ` the B-52 Stratofortress is already twice the age of many Airmen who maintain it. ` http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123025604 example 2 KC-135. Last aircraft delivered in 1957. The projections are that in in 2017, they will be still flying. That will make it almost 60 years old! The KC-135 tanker is expected to fly well into this century and the assumption is some may be 100 years old at retirement if the KC-767 project is not properly funded. http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=110 These were all able because of the appropriate maintenance and upgrades being carried out and the absence of a threat to neutralize them. So a 25 year old fighter/bomber in SLAF inventory purchased for fraction of cost of a new aircraft is no `fraud`. 4 Mig 27s - 1 new MiG 29 or 1 new J-7 The sad irony is while people are complaining about the MiG 29 as being expensive, the MiG 27s cost UNDER the price of a similar NEW aircraft. I see also some politicians call them `Flying Coffins`. Weird. The SLAF lost one aircraft with an expat pilot when he misjudged his height during aerobatics. ...so why the `flying coffin`? Must be directed to their pedestrian followers who don`t know the front from the back of a jet engine. The SLAF should publish the sortie rate and the tonnage of bombs dropped by the MiG 27s between 2000 and now. The SL press and the politicians are giving more flak than the enemy to the SLAF |
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