Major milestone represents more than 500,000 hours of work
Boeing Defence Australia has completed its 100th F/A-18A/B Classic Hornet Deeper Maintenance to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), representing more than 500,000 hours of work over four years to keep one of Australia’s most reliable platforms in operation.
RAAF celebrated the milestone alongside the Boeing unit based at Williamtown, with Officer Commanding 81 Wing thanking the team for their efforts and reiterating the important role Boeing plays in supporting mission readiness.
“The incredible daily serviceability rates we’ve seen over the past couple of years have not been by accident. Without the coordinated and integrated efforts of Air Force, Boeing and other support agencies, we would be unable to sustain such a high tempo on operations in the Middle East and in vital training in Australia,’ said an 81 Wing spokesperson.
Boeing Defence Australia Integrated Services and Support General Manager Murray Brabrook said the Classic Hornet was a reliable workhorse in theatre, with the team maintaining around 10 aircraft at any one time during RAAF operations such as OKRA.
“Boeing conducted 59 Classic Hornet test flights in 2016 alone, with the team at Williamtown working diligently to ensure we provide the RAAF with a quality product on time and within budget,” said Brabrook.
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sunyi jer...kasi ribut sikit...
BalasHapusommm....toiletttttt....ommm
May RAAF donate this F-18 classic to malay caused they have crisis combat aircraft...
BalasHapusIt may be useless donation. Malon govt even don't have money to upgrade their own F-18. And please check the engine please.
Hapus@joni...Kesian,Kesian mereka bang,mestilah engine tuh buat beli nasi lemak kih kih kih
Hapusnadine
Hapusmestilah bro..nasi lemak kan sedap..tapi awas bro.. nasi lemak boleh buat anda sakit perut bro..kasian anda belum punya toilet...
Joni
HapusIf im not mistaken our hornet went through the 25X modernization program in 2015-2016.
Shed@ pastilah kerajaan malaysia telah keluar wang banyak untuk 25x modernization itu bro...menurut saya lebih baguslah malaysia beli jet pejuang menggantikan hornet tuh..bukan apa2 bro,walaupun sudah banyak di upgrade ataupun dapat modernization tetap sahaje keupayaan jet itu tidak maksimum bro...semakin berumur suatu jet pejuang airframenya tetap ada yg lost..jet pejuang tuh cem manusia bro,kalo manusia itu dah aki2 bila diberi suplemen vitamin penguatpun sekalipun tetap sahaje sia2 cos airframe atau body manusia itu telah banyak yg lost
Hapuskalau bagi dekat TNI-AU, tiap2 tahun terhempas..
HapusBro songlap
HapusThe F/A 18s were design with an airframe life of 6000 flight hours. The average flight hours of an RMAF Hornet is around 3000 flight hours. So as u can see theres alot of flying hours left and with constant upgrade they are on par (or even better) with other SEA air force fighter fleet.
The hornets were newly built and delivered in 1997. Only one aircraft suffered a mishap but was repaired and returned to flight status. They are the work horse of the RMAF. High serviceability rate and ease of maintanance made them a favourite in the RMAF fleet even more than the MKMs (thats saying a lot).
The TNI AU F16 were built during the 1980's. I dont know how much flying hours they have but with proper maintanance they gonna be flying in the foreseeable future (not good news for bro muarif).
Btw the total cost of the hornet upgrade was around 72 mil usd.
HapusShafiq@ jgn permalukan bangsamu sendiri,tak pernah baca ye link yg saya pernah beri tuh
HapusShed@ oke bro,thanks for the information
Shed@ sayapun tak tahulah sudah berapa kali F16 indonesia maintenance,tapi yg saya tahu F16 kena embargo USA,F16 pakistan pun kena embargo,tapi beza dgn F16 israel telah banyak tewaskan rakyat palestine tapi USA tak beri embargo,USA nih sangat teruklah,standard ganda...kerana case inilah indonesia belajar nak bina jet pejuang buatan tempatan like IFX project supaya kedepannya indonesia tak de masalah kena embargo lagi bro
HapusKfx uses american made engines. Its the US. A world power. The same as Russia. Sesiapa sahaja yg tdak bsetuju dgn dasar mereka sudah tentu akan menerima kesan. Eventhough embargoed, the TNI AU F16 fleet continue to fly (by the way of cannibalized part and ect). When the Indonesian - soviet relation went sour it dindnt take a long time before many of the soviet made weaponry went kaput (give and take a few items such as the kri pasopati that was retired during the early 1990s).
Hapusshed anuar
HapusSo,gagasan anti-embargo melalui kemandirian militer(indonesia) setakat ni tu cuma rhetoric la bro??
Klu ya..agak2 apa aim utama sebenarnya???
klu tak..bro tak rasa gagasan tu pre-mature ke bagi negara2 yg baru je nak kenal2 dunia industri..
apa kaedah terbaik untuk 1 negara capai status "anti-embargo" tu ?? ubah foreign policy ?? non-blok kepada pro A atau pro B ??
@anak peneroka not rhetoric but the first step to achieve an embargo-proof fleet. Got to start somewhere. At first some parts will still need to be imported but eventually we will be able to build everything ourselves.
HapusThe engines are probably the hardest part to produce. It requires a very high capability in metallurgy and other engineering fields. Look at China. They've been building indigenous fighter jets (some of them are stealth) and yet they are still unable to produce a reliable high performance engine because they lack in the field of metallurgy.
Indonesia will need to take thid challenge step by step. And the IFX is the first step to independencw on that field.
GerhardA
HapusSetuju setiap langkah perlu dimulakan dengan langkah pertama..
Persoalannya..adakah ia langkah yg tepat pada masa yg betul ??
Ya china belum mampu produksi reliable engine..tapi itu bukan bermakna kemampuan engineering china hanya selevel Asean..
I personally think that it is the right step and it is already pretty late to start. But late is better than not at all.
HapusNo I'm not saying that their engineering level is just at ASEAN level. I'm just using that as an example to illustrate how long and hard the process is to reach the kind of independence from embargos that Indonesia is aiming to reach.
I picked China and engines because Shed said something about IFX and american engines, which is the truth but caused you to question whether the program is just a rhetoric. It's just an illustration.
GerhardA
HapusOk you got the point there.
Pada pendapat saya..indonesia bukan saja sudah terlambat malah salah mengambil langkah pertama..
jika anda tidak setuju,boleh anda bagi contoh negara yg pernah ambil pendekatan yg sama indonesia ambil skrg...
Negara anti-embargo (militery) itu sama ertinya level superpower kan??? tidak???
Anak peneroka@ ini tak lah rethoric bro,kalo hanya rethoric jer dan tak sungguh2 manalah kerajaan indonesia sokong project IFX tuh dgn budget US$ 2 billion...indonesia bukan baru kenal aircraft industry bro,PT DI ditubuhkan tahun 1967
HapusShed @ setakat ini untuk IFX batch I kami guna engine USA,but nantinya bila USA kenakan standard ganda cem embargo kami guna engine buatan negara lain bro,ada banyak pilihan engine buatan negara lain like rusia,canada,france ataupun kami boleh guna engine airbus typhoon bro
I don't really know whether we've taken the wrong first step or not. Only time will tell.
HapusI agree that the step we take is pretty unorthodox because we jumped right into engineering a stealth aircraft from scratch but I don't really think that it's a wrong step.
Most countries normally start by licensing the right to build a model, then copying, the engineering it themselves but they usually do it alone.
Indonesia is working together with South Korea which is pretty experienced in fighter jet design and building by finacing the program and sending our engineers to help and learn. South Korea is technologically very advanced and they are also receiving technology from the US as an offset for buying the F-35 (other than 4 core techs). So Indonesia is pretty much trying to skip the standard first and second steps.
A possible example (although not exactly the same) is India. They're working together with Russia in the PAK-FA program. India has already built some fighter jets but still the jump in technology level is pretty similar.
No embargo free is not similar to superpower. It just means that we are not going to be crippled when a country embargoes us. What made you think that those 2 are the same?
joni
BalasHapussetuju..strong poo bro..strong poo
Jangan kan F/a-18 bro...toilet pun bisa jadi useless kalau tak punya kesadaran.. please check the toilet please..hargai sungai kita..
Ada yg panas hati dan iri nampaknya....kih kih kih...
BalasHapusAda yg ketahuan buang najis sembarangan..kih..kih..kih..
BalasHapusUtang negara berbanding PDB sudah sampe 53%,sudah sangat teruk...utangpun sudah teruk sangat tapi bualnya setinggi langit ...kih kih kih...negarapun sudah tergadai kih kih kih
BalasHapusMat rempit
HapusTolong berikan sekali peratusan hutang negara2 seperti Singapore dan US.
mat rempit
Hapuslebih 53% pun malaysia pernah .asalkan program2 developement jalan terus..
Tapi jika sudah hampir capai 30% tapi masih memerangi krisis toilet di era millenium..itu yg masalah...sakit dapat..malu pun dapat bro
@Shed...Om pun tahulah tuh,sila cari sendiri om,negara om setiap tahun tahun lebih dari 55% ratio utangnya
Hapus@Peneroka...apalah arti program2 development jalan terus pabila dibayar pake utang om....sikit2 ada program development mestilah hutang,walaupun ada tax dan cukaipun tak cukuplah bangun negara,apa hal nih lebih besar dari pasak dari pada tiang...Ingat om anak cucu yg tanggung hutang tuh sampe 7 keturunan,buat apalah toilet dari emas jika utang banyak om,ingat anak cucu om butuh makan bukan butuh hutang...posisi utang indonesia tak sampe 30% lah om,cuma 24,7% di tahun 2016 om
singapore debt is more than 100%. however their development still goes on. are you going to say singapore is also mortgaging their country. there's a reason why shed asked you to list the percentage of debt own by singapore and US. Even US debt is more than 100%.
Hapus@Om luqman...basic economic singapore n US itu sangat kokoh,beza dgn indonesia n malaysia,bila harga oil dunia n sawit turun maka economy indonesia n malaysia goyah dan tak stabil,beza dgn singapore tak de oil dan sawit economy mereka kokoh,dihajar indonesia dgn program tax amnesty economy singapore tak lah goyah
HapusSelamat Taniah buat malaysia!
BalasHapusJepang berencana untuk mendonasikan pesawat patrolinya ke Malaysia. Pesawat PC3 Orion ini sudah dipensiunkan oleh jepun dari operasinya.
WoW 😁
Japan produces the PC3 Orion under licence stating from 1981 until the early 1990s. Around the same time frame as the Indonesian F 16 and a lot younger then the C130 H donated by the Australian.
HapusJepun punya 60 pc3 orion. Kira kira brapa ya yang di donasikan ke jiran malaysia?
HapusKarena ini pesawat yg sudah dipencenkan maka malaysia pasti meretrofit atau mungkin juga harus mengupgrade semua sistem didalamnya.
Nah tentunya bertalian dengan anggaran yang tersedia kan.
Atau menerima begitu saja tanpa harus berbuat sesuatu kecuali hal hal yang kecil seperti perawatan berkala sebagaimana mestinya sebuah alat transportasi.
Hanya ingin tau ulasan dari mereka ajah...zizizi 😁
Mungkin tidak perlu di retrofit bro luthfi, cukup jadi barang inventais aja
HapusTheres certain aspects in the Malaysian - Japanese relation that u didnt know. Many of the hardware donated by the Japanese were upgraded by them before being handed to us. The MMEA ship was a prime example. It looks like the Malaysia gov is trying to get a similar deal with the orions. Btw the orion was meant to be a stopgap and as a learning tool before we could operate a fully fledge MPA squadron.
HapusYou can always buy our CN-235 MPA you know. Better to have a big fleet of cheaper MPA aircrafts than a 3 or so more expensive ones. The quality of the CN-235 MPA is also not bad 😉
HapusThe cn-235 mpa is also in rmaf list of competitors. currently the do228 is in the lead but there are chances the cn-235 will win.
Hapushornet malaysie tak de tayar and tak de enjin....kesian
BalasHapusI pity u bro. Anda nampaknya berada dlm dunia anda sendiri and a bit delusional
Hapusshed anuar
HapusNak buat camner bro..supporter suwandaru ramai kat sini..mane ada yg berani tegur..rasanya,indonesian kat sini takde niat nak berbaik dengan malaysian..
betul ke hornet malaysie tak de minyak?????tunggu donation minyak dari pbb????
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HapusOrg seperti anda merugikan negara.
Untung anda bukan warga Malaysia.
Satu kerugian kpd indonesia punya warga sperti kamu.
Kamu cuma pandai menghina .
Itu saja kebolehan kamu...yg lainnya kebodohan yg nyata.
Org seperti anda mmg xpunya harga diri..xmerasa malu kah bila berbicara bodoh .