[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Hegel was an absolute idiot!

[Paul Ross]

Never mind the fact that the Boeing bid was the actual price-winner...which the White House and Pentagon covered up initially...but were busted on.

Just like the incredibly stupid Marine One helicopter deal thrown to Britain...this was clearly all about Bush Throwing the Contract to Britain and France...

[WinMod70]

What happened to all the alternate energy sources that we promised? Fuel tankers are so 1990’s. Haven’t they built that engine that runs on air yet?

Anyhow, I recall a not so long ago deal where congress went against the Navy’s winner take all approach and forced splitting construction of the new DDG 1000 class between two shipbuilders. That hasn’t worked out so good now has it.

[ASOC]

The WWII Jeep was a split contract - 3 vendors, actually.

And it worked because the units were identical - a Ford motor would work in a WIllys unit, etc.

Tankers, OTOH, don’t lend themselves to mass production -so a split buy would be the very definition of

insanity.