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The new tanker being put forward by Northrop Grumman [NOC
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And now, the entire defensibility of the aircraft itself has been called into question. Today, verbal missiles were launched by both sides.
From Boeing, a statement saying its tanker offering, the KC-767, is actually more survivable and less vulnerable to attack than the winning KC-30. Boeing claims that when the Air Force debriefed it after announcing a winner, "the Boeing team discovered the KC-767 outranked the KC-30 in the critical survivability category.
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The KC-767 achieved a total score of 24 positive discriminators--including 11 described as major--while the KC-30 scored five, none of which were major." A Boeing consultant, former Air Force Chief of Staff, retired Gen. Ronald Fogleman, points out that survivability is kind of important in a tanker...
Meantime, Alabama blogger JD Crowe--whose state will benefit greatly from the Northrop win--has posted the following cartoon:
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