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Boeing Wins $35 Billion Air Force Tanker Contract
The Boeing Co. has bested its European rival, EADS, for a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, Pentagon officials said Thursday. The win will keep the production line for Boeing's 767 jet, which is the basis of its tanker, busy for the next decade. Boeing will replace 179 of the Air Force's KC-135 tankers, which Boeing built back in the 1950s and 1960s. (www.heraldnet.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
KauaiGolfer's point is well-taken, but seeing how many our current enemies were armed by us when we didn't care for others, it is seeminly inevitable. Look at the F-35 being marketed being needed for U.S. air superiority is and yet is being concurrently designed and sold to at least 10 other nations. How does that make it our "premier" fighter? And who of the 10, currently our allies will be our enemies. The period of 1750 - 1850, one needs a program to know who was enemy to whom and when.
KauaiGolfer your concerns are ill founded for some 70-80% of the Airbus 330 tanker would come from within the U.S. as for the rest there are a lot of companies around the world and that includes the U.S. who can copycat parts, and really good ones, and meet the needs of the USAF, see this is a global economy times
I could see us, ten or fifteen years down the road, getting into some conflict somewhere in the world, that the French disagreed with. Do we really want another country to be able to even attempt to dictate policy by let's say, cutting off the parts supply at Airbus? For this one reason I'm happy Boeing won this. Over and above my feeling that Boeing airplanes are more structurally robust, and are built to last.
It's is a global economy. But the bottom line is a replacement that actually flies needs to be added to the inventory, not another 20 year battle over the which airframe is more American.
Well done for this! You have got to look after your own folks at home, before your whole production base heads to China and you lose control! I write as a Brit from the UK, as I doubt that if we ordered Airbus tankers -we could control costs with so many contributing nations.
Our present government has finally just plugged the plug on, and stopped a £38 BILLION (about $60 billion) overspend on our ancient RAF Nimrod defence planes. If we had simply bought production AWACS from the USA it would have been much better value and we would not now be cutting our defence programme to pay for such crazy overspends. Well done to the Pentagon for looking after home industry in the USA. Yes - open competition has maybe helped you to get better value for your dollar spend, but in the end common sense has prevailed. Well done to you, and congratulations!
Our present government has finally just plugged the plug on, and stopped a £38 BILLION (about $60 billion) overspend on our ancient RAF Nimrod defence planes. If we had simply bought production AWACS from the USA it would have been much better value and we would not now be cutting our defence programme to pay for such crazy overspends. Well done to the Pentagon for looking after home industry in the USA. Yes - open competition has maybe helped you to get better value for your dollar spend, but in the end common sense has prevailed. Well done to you, and congratulations!
If it lasts half as long as some other Boeing products (KC135, B52) then it will be around a long time.