Airbus pairs up with L-M for A330 tanker services to Pentagon

[chopper2004]

Laughingly or not as I was reading the thread on the Voyager Plummets, this caught my eye ...

Lockheed And Airbus Join Forces To Disrupt U.S. Aerial Refueling Marketplace And More - The Drive

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Airbus and L-M are apparently joining forces to pitch / propose the A330 tanker solutions to the Pentagon , thus kind of disrupting the USA aerial tanker marketplace. Largely because they see the likes of the Marine Corps and Naval aviation more and more using contracted out AAR (Omega). So the Airbus/ L-M conglomerate can see pitch in there.

Laughingly was it not exactly a decade ago ..that it was the KC-X competition where A330 was pitched and dismiissed because it was not American and Kc-46 picked.

Of interest one of my US colleagues when I worked in the airline industry at the time, rushed for a meeting / interview with a US company that umm partnered with Antonov for KC-X

https://leehamnews.com/2010/08/12/us...aces-an-112kc/

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/Sp...063555phpapp02

Any thoughts?

Cheers