A Super Tucano by Embraer flying over the Dominican Republic.
The U.S. Air Force is spending over $400 million for 20 of these
aircraft for use by the Afghanistan Air Force.
Posted on 06/14/2013 9:07:26 AM PDT by KMR
Beechcraft hopes Congress will get involved to kill a U.S. Air Force contract with its Brazilian rival Embraer to make $431 million worth of fighter planes for Afghanistan.
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Crazies.
Buy Amerikan® you stoopit Fks....
Make a better product.
Make it cheaper.
Make contributions to the correct party...
You left the ol out of Fks...
Beech is still spitting into the wind hoping they won’t get wet.
So it is better to turn down an existing airplane with a successful flying record to buy a paper airplane that has never flown and its entire history consists of the salesman putting out his arms and making engine sounds with his mouth.
Yea, thats the ticket.
If a company with largely American shareholders can’t beat a rival on competitive tender then why should the taxpayer be forced to subsidize their failure and buy their product anyway?
If this type of plane is so strategically important that a company with largely Brazilian shareholders can’t be allowed to make it then why were they included in the tender process?
Embraer and Sierra Nevada.
Let’s see now...
Embraer, not a bad airplane maker but Brazil is run by the most anti-American socialist skank in its history right now. Why give her the business?
Sierra Nevada....run by the Ozmen family, Turks who use the wife’s name on the corporate ownership papers to qualify for affirmative action preferences as a “woman owned” business. And Oh Yes, they get points for being anti-Jewish Muslims. But I doubt that either have been to a mosque in years...
Yessirree, that’s the new U.S.A.F., wouldn’t want any fresh faced American boys in Kansas building the airplanes that are supposed to be defending them.
How much more would the Beechcraft version cost over the Embraer airplane? Since we’re giving the damned things to Afghanistan then go with the lower cost solution.
Bring back the Spads (Sky Raiders) out of storage, it will be a lot cheaper. That’s if they haven’t been chopped up.
If they are being given to the Afghans why not just give them some Piper Cubs and be done with it? Anything else is an even bigger waste of our money.
I recall that out of 108 Afghan pilot candidates only a hand full, like less than 10 have been successful.
A Super Tucano by Embraer flying over the Dominican Republic.
The U.S. Air Force is spending over $400 million for 20 of these
aircraft for use by the Afghanistan Air Force.
Beechcraft doesn’t have a plane ready to go, Embraer does.
If you get your ass beat twice bawl like a child and ask congress to intervene and change the rules.
That would be an O&M nightmare of epic proportions, and cost out the wazoo.
Good summary of how the US Air Force thinks! And I write that as someone who worked operational test for the USAF before I retired...
You just answered your own question within the question......
With 8 of 108 cadets qualifying, IMO, Afghanistan really needs to start a model airplane club, then a CAP squadron and work their way up, with intense adult supervision.
BTW, if Allah the All Wise wanted these Worthy Oriental Gentlemen to fly, he would have equipped them with carpets.
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