Originally Posted by
Asturias56
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The US Air Force plans to award Boeing a contract for analysis of the E-7A Wedgetail" - why not just talk to them directly?
And what are the short term alternatives??
They dont do anything for free, but said it might be a we will pay you million to do this report if we decide not to go ahead you get the money, if we decide to go ahead that amount is the down payment. I have seen this in contacts before, not at this scale but still a million or 2 type stuff
As to short term alternatives going to guess nothing in the same class as E-3 and E-7. Theres Erieye mounted on a embraer 145 or global 6000. India were going to do Erieye on an A330 but that died a death.
Really options are a E-7, Clean sheet or E-3 life extensions
Also from what I understand australia gets a cut of all E-7 sales so could be good if the yanks buy some it might bring some other countries out of the woodwork to buy some to replace thier E-3's