Australia Considering Further Shortening Tiger Service Life

Credit: Cpl. Sebastian Beurich/Commonwealth of Australia
Military aircraft types do not suffer much greater indignities than this. The Airbus Tiger, ordered by Australia in 2001, finally achieved full operational capability in April, seven years late and still not, in fact, fully operational. But the government had already decided to retire the unreliable...

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