Originally Posted by
GlobalNav
I would suggest the contractor over-promised, under-bid, under-delivered, and poorly produced. Bringing shame upon itself and it’s customer’s acquisition prowess.
You mean like the A400M?
No one is immune to that disease...
At the risk of repeating myself for the umpteenth time, the A330 MRTT doesn't meet the mandatory USAF requirements - not even close. It would have required a major development program to come up an A330 derivative that did - with no guarantee that Airbus would have performed much better than the lazy B.