Posted on 02/28/2012 7:21:03 PM PST by U-238
Tri-partite Coalition Party the Socialist Left (SV) has called for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter price not to exceed the defence budget of 40 billion kroner. Labour (Ap) wishes to allocate extra money, whilst the Centre Party (Sp) will not comment.
Bård Vegar Solhjell, SV’s parliamentary leader, believes that an aging population, climate and education are more important.
He told Aftenposten, “Few would argue that military threats are among our most important challenges. We cannot live with the fact that the armed forces and national insurance being the only major initiatives forward, without caring about education and the climate.”
Decisions must be made on the F-35 project before Easter, including funding. The purchase price is estimated to be approximately 37.5 billion for now.
There is also still no solution to where the new base will be located. One area that has been suggested is Ørland, but locals are still unsure of what effect the planes will have on their lives.
The noise from the F-35’s is far greater than that of the current F-16’s and decisions must be made on how to limit this.
Solhjell does not see how cutting the defence budget would cause a problem, citing other countries as examples.
“Countries around us are making significant defence cuts. It is therefore likely there will be significant military downsizing. There is no reason why Norway should work against this trend with unilateral rearmament.”
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Whhaaaattttt?
Its all Edwards AFB inside talk.Edwards AFB is divided into two bases. North and South. Northbase is where they keep the secret planes such as the F-35. Southbase is NASA related and they have a museum there.
Edwards insider talk, eh?
Geez, and here I thought there might be some intelligence there.
The museum is not a national secret.
"They should take him top the tour..."
I repeat....whaaaatttt????
There is a thing called a typing error. They should take him on the tour. I have arthritis on my hands so bear with me.
Be a little bit sensitive especially when people have arthritis.
Arthritis should not affect your ability to proofread your post, especially after TWO nudges.
Nitpicking,eh
As long as you get the point. Never heard of typing errors,eh?
Perfectionist.
You combined a nonsensical typo with 'insider/local knowledge' into a gibberish post, so no, I did not get the point.
Talk to the hand (’cause the face ain’t listening)
Nor is the arthritic brain, evidently.
Back in the day South base was across the dry lake from the main base- where NASA was. North base was still North base.
Talk to the hand
You are absolutely correct. I do like their main radar tower. They recently upgraded it to a touch screen to access the base.North Base works with Groom Lake and Tonopagh
They do have “Janet” flights
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