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EADS: USAF can buy 118 A400Ms with savings from C-130, C-5 retirements
Flightglobal ^
| 02/19/2010
| Stephen Trimble
Posted on 02/20/2010 8:27:23 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
EADS North America has offered a plan for the US Air Force to purchase 118 Airbus A400Ms using savings from retiring most Lockheed Martin C-130Hs and all C-5As.
The EADS proposal was submitted last year to the Air Mobility Command (AMC) upon their request, says Neil F. Smith, director of A400M programme for EADS NA.
The concept proposes to stand-up about eight squadrons of A400Ms within the US mobility force structure, Smith says. "We get a very good reception" at AMC, Smith says.
EADS has been seeking to introduce the A400M in the US market for several years, arguing that the increasing size of ground vehicles has out-grown the box size of Lockheed's C-130. The A400M features a 3.96m (13ft) cabin diameter, versus the C-130 family's 2.74m-wide cargo bay.
The size difference would allow the army to load an armoured Stryker vehicle on the A400M, Smith says.
In response, a Lockheed executive challenged EADS' assumptions about the cost of the A400M, especially with the programme currently in negotiations with European governments over a reportedly $7 billion cost overrun.
"I think that's the ultimate in fuzzy math," says Jim Grant, Lockheed vice president of business development for air mobility and special operations programmes.
Despite the ongoing uncertainty about the programme's financing, EADS plans to continue making a big push in the US market. One of the programme's test aircraft could even travel to the US in early 2011 for a marketing tour, the company says.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: a400m; aerospace; airbus; airmobilitycommand; amc; boeing; c130; cc5; eads; gates; plasticplanes; usaf
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To: sonofstrangelove
Keep Dreaming Airbus and EADS
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posted on
02/20/2010 8:33:09 PM PST
by
ICE-FLYER
(God bless and keep the United States of America)
To: sonofstrangelove
In this economy why would the DOD purchase any major systems from EADS?
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posted on
02/20/2010 8:33:37 PM PST
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
To: neodad
There is a possibility that Gates will make a purchase from EADS. I would make it from Boeing
4
posted on
02/20/2010 8:36:12 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: ICE-FLYER
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posted on
02/20/2010 8:36:29 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
Oh yea, that will go over like a lead balloon for the âBuy Americaâ crowd. Couldn’t even agree to a US Manufactured boom and electronics on a Airbus âgreenâ tanker
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posted on
02/20/2010 8:37:04 PM PST
by
Cheerio
(Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: Cheerio
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posted on
02/20/2010 8:37:47 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
Don’t the Airbus tails have a tendency to break off during stressful turns?
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posted on
02/20/2010 8:39:43 PM PST
by
rbosque
(11 year Freeper! Combat Economist.)
To: rbosque
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posted on
02/20/2010 8:44:05 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
What a load of crap.You will never get the service life out of that plastic crap as you have and will with metal aircraft.Manmade global warming of the aviation industry.
10
posted on
02/20/2010 8:46:41 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: sonofstrangelove
I would make it from Boeing That's all well and good -but does Boeing actually manufacture an aircraft in that class? A heavy-hauler turbo-prop with similar specs?
And no - I am not an EADS fan by any stretch.
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posted on
02/20/2010 8:54:38 PM PST
by
TheBattman
(They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
To: sonofstrangelove
All idiotic euoropean economic thinking aside, why would we want to retire C130’s and C5’s ?
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posted on
02/20/2010 8:59:36 PM PST
by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: lewislynn
I do not know why? Those planes are in good working condition.
13
posted on
02/20/2010 9:01:05 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
Retire the Herkybird? Aren’t we still buying those?
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posted on
02/20/2010 9:03:33 PM PST
by
SeeSharp
To: lewislynn
All idiotic euoropean economic thinking aside, why would we want to retire C130s and C5s ?If the size comparison data is accurate and the C-130 can't carry strykers, OK they have a point. But C-5s? The behemoth of the sky? dunno.
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posted on
02/20/2010 9:03:37 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("Roll back Pelosi" Rush Limbaugh, 2/12/10)
To: sonofstrangelove
so in the middle of a recession and with all the crap from the ONE about creating & saving jobs, this idiot of a Defense Sec wants to outsource the Air Force requisition purchasing equipment to Europe??
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posted on
02/20/2010 9:05:10 PM PST
by
prophetic
(0Bama = 1 illegal president = 32 illegal, unconstitutional & unnecessary CZARS to do his job!!)
To: SeeSharp
C-130J Super Hercules is the latest model but has not gone into production
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posted on
02/20/2010 9:07:27 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: NonValueAdded
We need a hundred more C-17s, not a hundred A400Ms or C-130 size cargo aircraft.
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posted on
02/20/2010 9:08:18 PM PST
by
Solitar
("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
To: prophetic
Gates has thrown roadblock after roadblock in front of Boeing.
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posted on
02/20/2010 9:10:41 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
We can’t even build our own dam airplanes?
NO.
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posted on
02/20/2010 9:12:18 PM PST
by
Sequoyah101
(Half of the population is below average)
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