Frustrated....
You're not the only one in that position. It's not clear from the report if the contract allows for the fitting of DAS, and I appreciate that the threat may be evolving - but not to fit anything is little short of scandalous. I wonder who'll get sacked for this one? Ah, not to worry - nobody, of course.
The more interesting question is the size of the profits that AirTanker will make: we seem to be spending £390m a year with them, £60m of our own money FOR 27 YEARS - at a time when the much more capable KC-45 (boom, receptacle, freight door, freight floor, blah) was offered to the USAF at $189m a copy (say £120m give or take) and now EADS are saying that they can do it for
LESS because.... NG were charging too much profit..... err, what?
(See:
EADS Nears KC-X Decision | AVIATION WEEK)
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So how much are our uber-vanilla A330Ks really worth? And how much are we paying? And why on earth was there no Plan B? Who are these imbeciles, and who was sacked and lost their pension?? Ah, of course - NOBODY....
Given this, how the hell can MoD claim that they got a good deal?
As usual, the front-line and the poor bloody taxpayers have been shafted by MoD incompetence.
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