Originally Posted by
Stuffy
Airbus have done nothing except a paper exercise.
Lockheed have done nothing except a paper exercise.
Boeing have produced an MPA which is already in service.
Why the other manufacturers have done nothing, well only they can answer that?.
Err, kind of simple answer to that - Boeing developed theirs because the US Government paid them to.
Wiki isn't the most reliable source (!) but in this case it's fairly on the ball
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