Posted on 11/25/2011 1:10:50 PM PST by lbryce
Edited on 11/25/2011 2:09:57 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
An unusual turn of events on a U.S. military procurement contract has lightly side-swiped three of Quebec’s largest aerospace firms.
Wichita-based aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft Corp. was excluded without explanation last week from a competition to supply 20 AT-6 Texan II light-attack and training planes to the Afghan air force.
Its four main suppliers on the bid to the U.S. air force – which would then turn the aircraft over to the Afghan forces – were all Canadian: Longueuil’s Pratt & Whitney Canada for the PT6A-68D 1,600-horsepower engine, St. Laurent’s CAE Inc. for the crew training, St. Laurent’s CMC Esterline for the flight management system, as well as Burlington, Ont.-based L-3 Wescam, which was to provide daylight sensors, infrared cameras with zoom and various lasers.
The elimination of Hawker Beechcraft apparently makes a winner of the Super Tucano trainer and light-attack aircraft produced by Brazil’s Embraer, the only other bidder for the contract.
Matthew Perra, spokesperson for Pratt & Whitney Canada, said by email that “as with any competition there was some investment made, but this amount is not material to P&W Canada.”
But it does not signify a loss for Pratt & Whitney Canada – it also supplies the same engine for Embraer’s Super Tucano.
Hawker Beechcraft said it was “confounded and troubled” by its unexplained elimination from the bid, and asked the U.S. air force for a formal debriefing to review the reasons for its exclusion from the 20-plane Light Air Support order.
I have no illusions regarding the sisyphean task of having Obama is Stalin ever to achieve any sort of traction at all, as grass root phenomena but at least I have the fulfillment of making some sort of political statement of my own in the utter pulsating vehemence I have towards the none-too-soon-evicted occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
One possible reason is that the contract request ready to use aircraft, not models still under development. The AT-6 is still under development. This whole contract process was started last year when the military had already started training pilots in the Super T to meet animmediate need in Afghanistan. Instead of deploying pilots and aircraft to meet that need last year, the Kansas congressional contingent insisted on a bidding process to allow Hawker Beechcraft to compete.
Goodbye North Dakota and Kansas, hello Rio. Obama has a funny way of focusing on jobs in the US.
It's the right of a tyrant to act this way.
Soros is invested in Embraer.
“Soros is invested in Embraer.”
Things that make you go “hmmmmm”;)
I have no illusions regarding the sisyphean task of having Obama is Stalin ever to achieve any sort of traction at all, as grass root phenomena but at least I have the fulfillment of making some sort of political statement of my own in the utter pulsating vehemence I have towards the none-too-soon-evicted occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Code Purple Metaphor Overload!
Actually, good writing. Some simile action in there too.
They’re being pretty blatant about it, aren’t they?
They can get away with it because the 90% of the sheeple who think the MSM actually covers the news will never find out.
“It is good to be the king.”
The only surprise here is that the military actually got the plane it wanted.
Welcome to the new world order
-——the military actually got the plane it wanted-——
and more importantly, when it will be needed. The boys in Kansas apparently do not have a plane with which to fulfill the contract. Time is of the essence
Yes, true. (In the style of writing in which I am wont to express myself, have too many times been castigated for, I was inclined to respond with quite true, but then realized I would once again bring out the consummate grammarian in you (as I myself strive to be) but thankfully correcting it in time. I would have cleaned it up as I usually do but had to attend to matters requiring my immediate attention.
Anyway, your kind words are most appreciated.
Hawker Beech was using several companies from Canada, including Wescam for their camera.
That was my suspicion too. Do you have any links?
Make the Bum Obama's next term a PRISON Term..
What is with him and Brazil anyway? Maybe that’s where he was born and they are holding on to the real birth certificate.
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“BACKGROUND AND REQUIREMENTS: LAS aircraft must be a non-developmental item (NDI) that is production-ready. No development or testing funds are available. ” Introduction of LAS Solicitation FA8615-10-R-6088”
They didn't have a production aircraft then, they don't have one now.
a U.S. military procurement contract has lightly side-swiped three of Quebec's largest aerospace firms. Wichita-based aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft Corp. was excluded without explanation last week from a competition to supply 20 AT-6 Texan II light-attack and training planes to the Afghan air force... apparently makes a winner of the Super Tucano trainer and light-attack aircraft produced by Brazil's Embraer, the only other bidder for the contract... Pratt & Whitney Canada ... also supplies the same engine for Embraer's Super Tucano. Hawker Beechcraft said it was "confounded and troubled" by its unexplained elimination from the bid, and asked the U.S. air force for a formal debriefing...
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