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Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Australia's LHD 'as aircraft carrier' headache

F-35B Lightning IIIt has been widely reported that in the lead up to the 2015 Defence White Paper, Prime Minister Tony Abbott ordered Defence to assess the benefits of F-35B jump jets and converting the Canberra class Landing Helicopter Docks (LHD) to accommodate them.

Previously, the RAAF was committed to buying only the F-35A version of the Joint Strike Fighter.

Writing in the academic blog, The Conversation, in June, Stephen L Jones opined that if Australia was serious about buying the jump jet version of the JSF, it would be wise to look at why the UK is the only country to change its mind on which version of the aircraft to buy.

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