Wild Wild Guess
Try this one
Boeing buys back MD, to recover the know-how they were not yet paid for to begin with.
They also buy some old MI-26's and put a team to analyse them, so that they are ready for developping a new big size transport heli, just in case the V-22 does not live up to the expectations....
(not meant as a us-euro ping-pong game)
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