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2008-08-07 Home Front: WoT

New Tanker Timetable Upsets Boeing Supporters

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Posted by Steve White 2008-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 FUBAR: Definition = "New AF tanker procurement process"

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-08-07 03:58|| 2008-08-07 03:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Jack -

You think THIS is FUBAR'd? Wait until you see the mess that the F-35 program has become while everyone was focused on the KCX. That one is so far outta whack that some folks are quietly talking about killing it.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2008-08-07 05:34|| 2008-08-07 05:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Boeing is reacting like the Democrat party, they want to keep doing it until they win. One of the reasons they don't like the schedule is they want to push the decision to the next Congress which they think will be overwhelmingly Democrat and President Obama, both of which are inclined to view the Defense budget as a source of patronage.

Posted by RWV 2008-08-07 08:52|| 2008-08-07 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought the F-35 was going to be F-22 lite. How can they screw that up? Design assistance from DoJ?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-07 09:56|| 2008-08-07 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Boeing has best get its stuff together -- they got teeir appeal.

Now the AF needs to do whats best for the nation, not whats best for Boeing, and get the first batch of the best tankers we can get at the time going ASAP. And then rebid the second batch which willl likely go to Boeing with a 767 or 777 plan.

No harm in flying half of one, half of another, as long as we get the first half delivered and flying much more quickly.

THat was one of the major deciding factors in the previosu contract - I recall that by the time Boeing said they would deliver their first aircraft, the NG/EADS would have had 20+

And the whole "foreign vs domestic" angle is pretty much trash. 35% or more of the Boeing tanker will be from overseas sources as well.

No such thing as a 100% single nation jetliner anymore. Unless you want to buy from Russia, heh.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-07 10:22|| 2008-08-07 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Boy, some big money is behind screwing Boeing out of this contract.

"...the bigger Airbus A330 design that Northrop would base its planes on."

Reading this article you'd believe it was a Northrup plane vs. a Boeing plane. I'm not going to get into a debate here, but the belief that a 'larger' tanker meets the US needs better is laughable.
But this process is no laughing matter.
I consider even debating a European product for a key strategic role TREASONOUS,
and not just because it isn't American.

Posted by logi_cal 2008-08-07 10:27|| 2008-08-07 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 No such thing as a 100% single nation jetliner anymore. Unless you want to buy from Russia, heh.

They don't call Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) 'Comrade Murray' for nothing. She's 110% Socialist.

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