호주 새 정부, 슈퍼호넷과 F-35 도입 재검토

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호주의 새 노동당 정부가 전임 정부에서 했던 계약들을 전면 재 검토한다고 합니다..
전의 기사에는 2013년부터 F-35를 도입한다고 했는데요... 2014년 얘기가 나오네요..

참고로 호주의 새 노동당 정부는 선거 공약으로 F-22 도입을 주장했습니다...



Australian Government to Review Air Combat Spending Program

By Robert Fenner

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a5._LkBExxqQ&refer=australia

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Australia will review its air combat spending program, which includes a A$6.6 billion ($5.8 billion) agreement to buy new fighter aircraft from Boeing Co.

The structure of the review is being developed and will start ``as soon as practicably possible,'' a spokesperson for Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said in an e-mailed statement. Australia may cancel the agreement to buy 24 F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter-bombers from Boeing, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today, without saying where it got the information.

Fitzgibbon, who took on the role after Kevin Rudd's Labor party defeated John Howard's Liberal-National coalition government last month, inherits a program that may be worth A$30 billion, according to the Herald. Other agreed purchases include up to 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters being developed by Lockheed Martin Corp. and five A330 airborne refueling tankers from European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.

``The government has undertaken to conduct a thorough review of the air combat capability options available,'' Fitzgibbon's spokesperson said in the statement. ``Without superior air-combat capabilities, the Australian Defence Force's ability to control the air and sea approaches to our nation is compromised.''

The government may cancel the Boeing contract at a cost of about A$300 million or try to renegotiate its terms and the number of jets it buys, the Herald said.

Ken Morton, a Boeing spokesman in Sydney, didn't return a voicemail message left on his cellular phone.

Super Hornets

Former Defence Minister Brendan Nelson, who is now opposition leader, agreed to buy the planes in March as the nation transitions to Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and retires its fleet of F-111 jets.

First deliveries of the Super Hornets are expected in 2009 with the Joint Strike Fighter, the largest U.S. weapons program ever, scheduled to be available from 2014.

The F-35, designed to be almost invisible to radar, is being developed by Lockheed Martin in cooperation with eight other countries including Canada, Australia and the U.K. The countries have pledged more than $4.5 billion to help develop the jet in return for the right to buy it.

To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Fenner in Sydney



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