Australian government now attacks F/A-18 buy

February 29, 2008 by Dagpotter · 1 Comment
Filed under: Australia, Contract Awards, Lockheed Martin, Military Aviation, Restructuring, production program 

The Australian Defence Minister, Mr. Fitzgibbon, now has decided that the plan to buy F/A-18 and then JSF for the nation is a bad idea. Just a few days ago, here, he was applauding the F/A-18. He now states that the US aircraft were not necessarily the way to go to buy modern fighter aircraft. The options, though, were limited. Australia could have bought Russian, or the Eurofighter, or SAAB Viggens, I guess? But I don’t know if the cost would have been comparable. He continues to say that the country really wants F-22 aircraft, which is currently not allowable under US law, even though the US DoD have expressed some support for the idea.

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No word on KC-X yet

February 25, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, Department of Defense, EADS, Northrop Grumman Corp., U.S. Air Force, commercial aviation, logistics 

Bumped - Here is an Agence France Press article on the KC-X DAB and status.

The KC-X Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) was supposed to meet this afternoon. After a successful DAB the Air Force should be able to announce who won the contract. Sometimes it occurs right after the meeting, but it may take a few days. There was no Air Force contracts awarded when the 17:00 EST list came out. So the next chance should be tomorrow evening at the same time.

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