EADS poised to win Air Force tanker contest, analyst says

Ai.com ^ | 12/7/2010 | George Talbot

[Java4Jay]

EADS’s tanker won’t fit in the hangar... hang it up.

[Java4Jay]

I’ve been a airline jet mechanic for 28 years, worked Boeing, Airbus, and McDonnell Douglas. By far the best is a Boeing product with Pratt engines. Anything else is subpar.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

This is bullshit!Our tax money goes to buy foreign crap.When Palin becomes President I hope she will cancel the contract.The fix has been in for some time now.

[blam]

"Sending our military dollars to a foreign entity should be forbidden. The money should stay here and employ as many Americans as feasible. "

They'll be built here in Mobile, Alabama.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

You can’t really cancel a memorandum of understanding. Those are binding contracts.

[sukhoi-30mki]

An MOU is not necessarily binding and does not have the same weight as a contract. Which is precisely why an MOU is often the first stage of any contractual negotiations.

The MOUs on the JSF does not make it binding on partners to commit to buy the aircraft, for the US to agree to a second engine etc etc.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

You are correct

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I wonder if there is a performance clause that gives wiggle room to be able to cancel?

[Oztrich Boy]

What happens if WW3 breaks out and we are unable to restock lost aircraft from overseas sources like EADS?

These days you have to have the equipment in service the day war starts.

Even if you don't, the assembly plant will be in the US, and all the tanker specific equipment is US manufactured. If the situation becomes extreme, take commercial A330-200F aircraft into service and add the tanker bits.

[gura]

You're right, the fix WAS in for sometime. Boeing has done everything it can to blackmail the Air Force into buying it's abortion of a tanker and finally ran out of ammo.

http://gflorencescott.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/boeing-whistleblower-gerald-eastman-revisits-last-tanker-deal-and-boeing-corruption/

http://www.pogo.org/investigations/national-security/boeing-tanker-leasing-deal.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002091816_webboeing16.html

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

No bias there huh pal? I will back an American company everytime.I guess your loyalties lie elsewhere.

[gura]

Yes I’m biased. I think our soldiers and airmen deserve the absolute best equipment money can buy. Boeing has consistently used this image of an “American Plane” when it’s patently not true in this case to shortchange the taxpayer and military for their own profit.

The EADS plane is to be assembled in America from American and foreign parts, just like a Boeing. Do some research on your own and see if you agree with me instead of just seeing “Boeing” and rooting for one side.