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 ...”
7000 people will put on decals? I’m serious!
Yep.
McCain’s hand is in this as well.
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 ...”
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I thought of that too. It will happen; it’s just a matter of time. Our independence is being destoyed by the Bush-Clinton-Bush virus.
I wonder what Reagan would think of this madness.
“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%.”
I’ve posted on this issue various times over the last several years. Each time I couldn’t get past that AIRBUS was the design that gave the best refueling capacity. I see it as a necessary Air Force program to keep warplanes fueled and in the air. Not a jobs program per se, but don’t the Northrop employees count ? As for Boeing resubmitting a new more competitive design, they had years to do just that, and SHOULD have. But they didn’t. Now times up, and USAF need the tankers.
“This plane will be built in France and flown to Alabama to have the decals put on”
From Northrop: “The KC-30 industrial team is committed to delivering an American military aircraft program, with tanker assembly and production taking place in Mobile, Alabama, and 58 percent of the aircraft, subsystems and support being provided by hundreds of American partners and suppliers. The KC-30 program will result in the in-sourcing of thousands of U.S aerospace jobs.”
As I said above, insinuations of treason are out of line. Boeing apparently didn’t design the best plane. Wishing punishment on the Air Force for Boeing for once not getting the contract is over the top. And generally absurd.
They are just supplying the airframe, Northrop Grumman is doing the complete system integration and managing the program.