Saudi AirForce auctioning off 79 old F-5 fighter jets

Mr Quatro · 02-09-15, 12:21 PM

They say the bidding is to start at one million dollars, but that you should buy at least five to get a useable fighter plane.

http://mg.co.za/article/2015-01-15-p...-up-for-grabs/

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“The Royal Saudi Air Force is putting on auction 79 of its F-5 fighter jet fleet. Interested parties are invited to submit their bidding price(s) …”
This week the Saudi Air Force and the Pretoria mission of the kingdom confirmed that the offer is genuine, the auction legitimate and that anybody can make a bid for one or several supersonic and missile-capable warplanes.

For just a few dollars compared to what a new F-35 would cost we should manufacture these planes again to fly without pilots at tree top & sea wave level for an all out war carrying a nuclear payload or even an airburst weapon knocking out all electronics in the area of explosion in case a bullet got lucky.

Tango589 · 02-09-15, 04:42 PM

I'll have a rummage down the back of the sofa and see what change I can come up with. (Will they accept an IOU?

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nikimcbee · 02-09-15, 05:22 PM

In before Jim!

So will Mrs. Buna allow you to expand your flat to get one of these?

eddie · 02-09-15, 05:47 PM

Watch Iran use a third party to buy some of them. Then they will proclaim, they have built a new fighter that can defeat anything the west can come up with.

mapuc · 02-09-15, 06:02 PM

I was thinking

Wonder if IS is trying, through third party, bed/buy (on) some of them

Markus

Rhodes · 02-09-15, 06:54 PM

They can re use it for Top Gun 2 - the return of the elusive MIG 28!

razark · 02-09-15, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by eddie

Watch Iran use a third party to buy some of them. Then they will proclaim, they have built a new fighter that can defeat anything the west can come up with.

I don't know that they'd pass them off as new. They might use them as replacements or spare parts for the ones they already have.

CCIP · 02-09-15, 07:29 PM

Saudi Arabia selling weapons to Iran would be like the US selling theirs to China - they're very much regional and ideological opponents, and although the chance of them going to direct war with each other is low, they're not so dumb as to give their enemy an edge. Geographically and ideologically, they're at loggerheads - both are a threat to each other in their access to the Gulf, the main economic artery for both of them; and they couldn't be more different in their approach to governance - Saudis are a deeply conservative, traditional, Sunni monarchy; Iran is a radical, populist Shia theocracy that started out by overthrowing a traditional monarchy.
So, no deal there!

em2nought · 02-09-15, 07:31 PM

I'm holding out for an A-10, wonder if I can get the contract to scrap them all and have the USAF pay me $1.00? USN style! LMAO

Where do you get spent uranium for the Lyman reloader?

Stealhead · 02-09-15, 10:20 PM

From a nuclear power plant DU is made from spent fuel rods. I think you'd have a hard time buying an A-10 too many Hog drivers will refuse to be sepearted from their beloved bird.

Here's the loader for an A-10 one of the many pieces of ground support equipment I have worked on don't dare breath in or touch the dust you had to wear a bunny suit and respirator to work on them.

Jimbuna · 02-10-15, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee

In before Jim!

So will Mrs. Buna allow you to expand your flat to get one of these?

Flat?....I do believe you mean 'man cave'

Probably not atm seeing as how she has recently been informed three further additions are inbound

eddie · 02-10-15, 12:37 PM

You do like living right on the edge don't you Jim!

em2nought · 02-10-15, 09:39 PM

Apparently the U$AF hates Europe because some of those terrible, terrible, terrible friendly firing "cold war era" A-10s were "just" deployed there. The USAF will just have to make due till it has $ome new $hiny military indu$trial complex garbage that can't provide clo$e air $upport.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...m-ukraine.html

Better decide who really is treasonous, I think the villain named his own poison.

A picture of the villian

Jeff-Groves · 02-10-15, 09:41 PM

I need to put a bid in for demolition work.

em2nought · 02-10-15, 09:55 PM

A-10s are so bad a$$ they need to be painted up Flying Circus style! Somebody should make a "good" A-10 movie.

02-09-15, 04:42 PM	#2
Tango589 Still crazy as ever! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 3,375 Downloads: 180 Uploads: 1	I'll have a rummage down the back of the sofa and see what change I can come up with. (Will they accept an IOU? ) __________________ Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way...

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nikimcbee Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Patroling the Slot. Posts: 17,952 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	In before Jim! So will Mrs. Buna allow you to expand your flat to get one of these? __________________

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eddie Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,023 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	Watch Iran use a third party to buy some of them. Then they will proclaim, they have built a new fighter that can defeat anything the west can come up with. __________________ Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I'm kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. Al Capone

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Rhodes Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal Posts: 4,516 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	They can re use it for Top Gun 2 - the return of the elusive MIG 28! __________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16416646@N05/

02-09-15, 07:29 PM	#8
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Saudi Arabia selling weapons to Iran would be like the US selling theirs to China - they're very much regional and ideological opponents, and although the chance of them going to direct war with each other is low, they're not so dumb as to give their enemy an edge. Geographically and ideologically, they're at loggerheads - both are a threat to each other in their access to the Gulf, the main economic artery for both of them; and they couldn't be more different in their approach to governance - Saudis are a deeply conservative, traditional, Sunni monarchy; Iran is a radical, populist Shia theocracy that started out by overthrowing a traditional monarchy. So, no deal there! __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

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mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,537 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	I was thinking Wonder if IS is trying, through third party, bed/buy (on) some of them Markus

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em2nought Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,485 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'm holding out for an A-10, wonder if I can get the contract to scrap them all and have the USAF pay me $1.00? USN style! LMAO Where do you get spent uranium for the Lyman reloader? __________________ em2nought is ecstatic garbage!

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Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	From a nuclear power plant DU is made from spent fuel rods. I think you'd have a hard time buying an A-10 too many Hog drivers will refuse to be sepearted from their beloved bird. Here's the loader for an A-10 one of the many pieces of ground support equipment I have worked on don't dare breath in or touch the dust you had to wear a bunny suit and respirator to work on them.

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eddie Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,023 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	You do like living right on the edge don't you Jim! __________________ Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I'm kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. Al Capone

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em2nought Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,485 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Apparently the U$AF hates Europe because some of those terrible, terrible, terrible friendly firing "cold war era" A-10s were "just" deployed there. The USAF will just have to make due till it has $ome new $hiny military indu$trial complex garbage that can't provide clo$e air $upport. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...m-ukraine.html Better decide who really is treasonous, I think the villain named his own poison. A picture of the villian __________________ em2nought is ecstatic garbage! Last edited by em2nought; 02-10-15 at 10:36 PM.

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Jeff-Groves GLOBAL MODDING TERRORIST Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,650 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	I need to put a bid in for demolition work.

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em2nought Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,485 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	A-10s are so bad a$$ they need to be painted up Flying Circus style! Somebody should make a "good" A-10 movie. __________________ em2nought is ecstatic garbage!