>>>Best Bid being awarded to a foreign nation on a security project is the equivalent to Bernard Shaw saying he needed to remain impartial with the info he had while at the El Rahseedd hotel.
Really over the top there. It’s not a spy plane. It’s a tanker, a flying gas can. The Airbus proposal carries more fuel so can refuel more aircraft and stay on station longer then the Boeing. Keeping the warplanes in the air is “security” too.
The Airbus proposal carries more fuel so can refuel more aircraft and stay on station longer then the Boeing. Keeping the warplanes in the air is “security” too.
Then build two of them and employ even more US Citizens.
Or have the US manufacturer resubmit with a plane that can hold the adnl 20%.
This plane will be built in France and flown to Alabama to have the decals put on. That tells you everything you need to know about who is really building this plane.
Can you imagine a few years down the road when another Chirac is in charge of France and tells the US “no more tanker spare parts until you withdraw from ...”