IAF clears proposal to buy three C 17; Boeing says only one plane left to sell

The Economic Times, India ^ | 17 Aug, 2015 | Manu Pubby

[sukhoi-30mki]

[Reno89519]

Hope that last one and others already delivered have remote Off switches once people realize that India is not our friend.

[cynwoody]

[antidisestablishment]

Yeah, Qatar is so much better!

[DesertRhino]

I’d rather India got them than those goat humpers.

[NonValueAdded]

Hey, Boeing, take a note from the Doritos people: “don’t worry, we’ll bake more.”

[DesertRhino]

India is a friend. Probably the only true friend between we have from Israel to Australia.

[sukhoi-30mki]

The goat humpers are far easier to sign arms deals with than the likes of India since you only have to deal with one “window” of clearance.

[Oztrich Boy]

Bugger, I was hoping the Australian Gov would buy another 2 and get NZ to pay for them

[Spktyr]

The Long Beach production line costs too much to keep running and since the US government decided to not buy any more (in fact, they cancelled their initial follow-on order) plus foreign military sales didn’t materialize as planned it would cost too much to set up the line somewhere else. Under Obama, the USAF capped their C-17 acquisition at 223 aircraft and requested line shutdown.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He’s one of those H1-B people, you can’t talk to him.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Big, but obsolescent. There are only about 29 of them in the world. The Antonov design bureau is in Kiev, the engines are made in the Ukraine. I doubt they are going to be back in production anytime soon.

[PLMerite]

That’s the An-225, of which there is exactly one.

[sukhoi-30mki]

If you’re referring to me, I’ve never seen an H-1B in my life and don’t plan to.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Not at all, I was referring to Reno89519 who said India was not our friend in post #2.

[DoodleDawg]

Under Obama, the USAF capped their C-17 acquisition at 223 aircraft and requested line shutdown.

How many more do we need?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Even better.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

How many more [C-17s] do we need?

It's impossible to answer that question unless you know what "we" intend to do with them. To Obama they are make-work, patronage to a constituency that does not support him.

[Spktyr]

The C-5 is being retired, the Air Force said we needed 10 more C-17s to replace each C-5 to maintain our existing airlift capability. This was when we had 209 C-17s.

We are retiring 21 over the next three years. You do the math.

[FreedomPoster]

I’d be curious to see where that 10:1 math came from. That ratio is absurd on the face of it, especially when you compare things like maintenance hours per hour of flight time between the two aircraft.