I do not trust to have ANY aircraft being used for OUR Air Force to be made in another country.
What’s to say the following scenario might happen:
In a war with say, China, a few years down the road, we have a flight of these new tankers refueling fighter jets near a war zone.
Somewhere in Beijing, some general enters a code to be sent to a satellite, which then broadcasts a signal, activating a special code hidden deep in the software of all these new tankers...code that was put there by Chinese agents after paying money to certain sympathetic (and greedy) people within Airbus while the jets were being built.
Without warning, every tanker’s jet engines suddenly die in midflight, causing all of them to become huge, heavy gliders which crash, killing our pilots and crew. Those that are on the ground no longer operate, no matter what our maintenance people do. The Chinese have just cut our mid-air refueling capability without too much effort.
Now, I know this argument is very tin-foil hat, but with the way things are...it may be within the realm of possibility.
And yes...I understand that the same scenario might be accomplished on American soil with a disgruntled liberal worker (or workers) doing the same thing, but somehow I think it less likely than what could happen with a foreign-built aircraft.
Never mind the economic standpoint of Boeing’s loss...what about seeing this from a NATIONAL SECURITY standpoint? If it flies for AMERICA, build the WHOLE DARN THING in AMERICA!!!
Someone at the Pentagon needs to get an uppercut from the Clue Fairy.
I have said before the the loss of manufacturing is a national security issue. The greedy robber barons of our time see only dollars or in this case euros...not the big picture. Profit is great, but to maximize short term profits at the expense of the country as whole is stupid. No one in business today thinks about the long term effects of their decisions.
Never mind the facts, just use emotion and empty rhetoric!