RAAF has grounded all Super Hornet's and Growler's

Two just went over my head. They were definately hornets. Heading towards base near lismore, from harvey bay area.

What are you yanks playing at!



Seriously though, it's a small number of aircraft doing a lot of flight time, so...

I hear on the wind we are going to be restarting our aircraft and munitions factories down the line anyway, maybe we can do a refurb.

I was about to wtf...
But no need, RAAF is running both Hornets and Super Hornets.

Interesting. Remember, we do have 72 F-35's slowly trickling in as well. First one arrived here December 2018.

It is something wrong with the fuel.

The 'me tel u now May 15' thread even warned about oil becoming bad and useless

The black goo is back!

Yep.

And they can launch a certain tactical nuke the Yanks happened to mention having a stockpile of they are not sure what to do with in the meedja recently.

What's that chinese curse? interesting times!

I was saying something regarding those nukes and AUS to someone offline the other day... can't quite remember wtf I was on about :)

Running out of Chinese replacement parts?

It's real. It's a problem. Ah yes, China slave labor keeping the Air Forces of the West in top flying shape no longer.

Wireless cyberattack on the jet's electronic systems, perhaps?

Combination of the two, China parts receive activation signal and malfunction?

Satellite laser? "We can hit your planes on the runway."

Here's an outside chance that raises the conspiracy level: last time we lost one of these birds it caught fire whilst at... Nellis. A message?

It could also just be as reports have said, problems with the engines. Although, I've since heard 'auto-ejection-system' was triggered, and, the video I first saw on Sky News Australia shows burn/scorch marks on the fuselage where the cockpit is.
Normal for ejection?

Or the black goo is sentient and angry.