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US Air Force to award $35 billion tanker contract
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is poised to award one of the biggest contracts in U.S. military history — a $35 billlion deal to build nearly 200 giant airborne refueling tankers. The rival companies . . . (flightaware.com) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
In case you are interested to learn: as I write this Boeing has only a few 767 being built for airline service mostly to fill the gap caused buy the awful delays in deliverying the 787. Again as I write this, Airbus continues to sell 330s for airline service like hot cakes. By definition airlines are a much efficient organizations for ordering airplanes than the Pentagon (sorry Mr. Gates), if the 330 would not be a good airplane, nobody have bought them, but the reality is quite the opposite.
It's about time. Our new tanker should be built by Boeing. There should never have been any doubt. The A-330 is NOT a better plane than Boeing can build, regardless of the claims of it's proponents. Les Lloyd, above, is correct, "Forget the politics, lets get on with building tankers!!"
EADS building our new Tanker???.........It just ain't fittin'.
EADS building our new Tanker???.........It just ain't fittin'.
Michael, during the last tanker go around, the USAF changed the evaluaiton critia after the RFP was released. This was done specifically to give more credit to the larger A330 and total against the government procurement policies and procedures. Therefore, the award was nullified, which was the right thing to do.
Forget the politics, lets get on with building tankers!!
I think that the current economic situation helped this decision. But, if the situation were better and the A330 really posed great threat to Boeing´s plane, they would offer a tanker based on the 777, not the 767.
The french in their first try used Northrop as a decoy to make believe that their proposal was comparable to Boeing's. That failed. No matter how it is disguised it is a FRENCH airplane. It could have GE engines, it could be built in the US but all the legal ownership of their parts is French and they would ultimately hold the right to supply parts when needed. Can you see that USAF having to beg a foreign country for support?