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**scouse** · 04-06-12, 16:47

Languishing in Arizona, our once-mighty fleet of Harriers... sold for the price of just ONE of their US-made replacements | Mail Online

**Montigny-La-Palisse** · 04-06-12, 17:22

He won't be crying, it's the harrier rotting in the Arizona dust, not his ego. The self important tool will be too busy near missing civvies in his car and counting them as "kills".

**Joint_Force_Harrier** · 04-06-12, 17:22

**Montigny-La-Palisse** · 04-06-12, 17:23

I fucking give up.

Appearing posts, disappearing posts. Shit's gone crazy.

**timex** · 06-06-12, 20:36

If I remember correctly the cabs are left in the desert as it tends to keep them in good nick, ISTR that as Gulf war 1 kicked off the US Air force nipped down and got a fair few of their A10's back into running order pretty sharpish? No doubt most of the good bits will have been taken out and "recycled" already.

**Waspie** · 06-06-12, 21:33

They are kept in the desert as there is minimal moisture therefore minimal chance of corrosion.

**wave_dodger** · 07-06-12, 07:27

The Sharkey is a chimp debate is all well and good, he certainly stirred up a lot of heat and light pre- and during Ellamy but I wonder how much money has actually been saved by shelving the SHAR fleet and a CVS in the period since they went, put into context against the money we appear to have magically saved in the EP and have even managed to build up as a contingency. PT as will many others know, these sums are allegedly massive and whilst I suspect there is some cute accounting we do seem to have ceased some projects and reaped a dividend.

I don't think the savings we made on SHAR/CVS will have been that significant in the great scheme of things. I still wonder what was the driving force behind their retirement and the Navy's acceptance of quite a considerable gap in FW aviation and carrier capability?