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Gates: too expensive splitting the KC-X tanker program

Fort Rucker, USA - Boeing and Northrup Grumman/EADS are competing for the contract

American Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated at Fort Rucker base, Alabama, that it would be too expensive to split the program of the new USAF KC-X tanker among the two competitors Boeing and Northrup Grumman/EADS: the cost would double from the present $7 billion to $14 billion. "We don't need - Gates said - the double maintenance, logistical and training costs that buying both the planes would...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1103004
Rome, Italy, 04/16/2009 17:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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