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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
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency