A military aircraft whose cost goes down? Boeing churns out P-8 sub hunters based on 737
A military aircraft whose cost goes down? Boeing churns out P-8 sub hunters based on 737 | The Seattle Times
The program is going so smoothly that Boeing has been able to drop the base price of the aircraft by about 30 percent from about $170 million to $115 million.
Goes on..
So an obvious question is how did they do that compared to the KC46A ? ( lets not talk the diffs in mission and use and capability - both are military from modified Commercial . 737 commercial do not have missile and bombbays for example. )
A bit of insight- The P-8 program was designed/bid/priced/ almost entirely by Commercial management and old hands re 737 program. They knew how to read specs and the diff betrween mil spec wiring and commercial wiring standards.
The 767-KC46 was done almosat entirely by newbies ( the pointy end wIth widows is the front- really ! ) with a large dose of 787 mis-management and a plethora of MDC ex- spurts.
The rest is history . .