You ALL miss my point.
GOOD LORD! Stop with the lectures on benefits on the global market place. I work in it! I support it!
I don't care one bit what parts are made where..... That is business and better for the consumer price-wise.
MY quote:
I didn't make the rules but I know the rules that were strictly enforced the last time around and this is the polar opposite.
WHY? What has changed?
When the solution for the New Marine One Presidential helicopter was the Lockheed Martin - AW101. Entirely sourced from the UK, Italy, and the US, the Navy helped kill the program with out of this world production security requirements. NAVY rationale; Its a Presidential aircraft. Leading cause of cost overruns.
WHY IS IT NOT AN ISSUE THIS TIME? WHAT HAS CHANGED? Is it simple hypocrisy because Sikorsky finally got the contract?