Claim: 'Air Force's Tanker Specs Won't Improve Technology'

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on January 13, 2010 6:16 PM | | Comments (0) |

It seems like Airbus and Northrop are convinced they'll lose the tanker contest to Boeing unless the specs are changed. This is an interesting game of chicken.


Airbus Criticizes Latest U.S. Air Force Specs for Refueling Tanker

SEVILLE, SPAIN -- European Aeronautic Defense and Space said Tuesday that the U.S. Air Force's latest specifications for a $50 billion contract to build aerial-refueling tankers would not yield any significant technological improvement on the capabilities of America's already outdated tanker fleet.

The European plane maker and its U.S. partner, Northrop Grumman, have said they would withdraw from the competition if the rules were not revised, a position that Sean O'Keefe, the new head of EADS's North American operations, reiterated Tuesday.

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