Posted on 06/14/2013 9:07:26 AM PDT by KMR
Beechcraft hopes Congress will get involved to kill a U.S. Air Force contract with its Brazilian rival Embraer to make $431 million worth of fighter planes for Afghanistan.
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Send me the $20 mil. I'll have something ready by Monday.
Or at least by the time some worthy oriental gentleman is ready to try flying it.
I don’t care who gets the contract, I just don’t want to pay $20 million per unit, but the case is made that the unit is relatively cheap and the training is what is going going to cost. That I can understand.
A reasonable answer.
But one more time....
Brazil is run by an ex-terrorist guerrilla and she reflects the mindset of the people there.
We have no more business buying military equipment from this hostile foreign power then we would from The People’s Republic of China, a criminocracy that we unfortunately allow to sell crap here too.
And while I’m on the subject, do a search on Dilma Roussef, daughter of one of the first Bulgarian Communists, who fled to Brazil to cause trouble in the Americas.
You want this freak to control USAF inventory?
I’m guessing you missed the part where they said that these planes are being bought for Afghanistan, not the USAF.
What are the details? Karzai ends up with the titles to the airplanes and the canopy keys?
Don't know, don't care. In the end, it's still a USAF deal.
Embraer sells lots of RJ's in the U.S. Bombardier and Embraer basically share the 50-90 seat market in the U.S., and admittedly they buy a lot of U.S. content for their aircraft: engines and avionics.
That's nice. But military aircraft? For a fight that they weren't a part of, and were not willing to support?
Not.
Thing is, while the US is paying for it, the USAF is only acting as a procurement agent. USAF personnel will not be using the aircraft.
Point is, those nutcases you were talking about in Brazil *won’t* be supplying critical (or even non-critical) materials to the USAF and won’t be in control of anything like that.
Ha ha. that sounds about right!
Yup. Thats what I keep hearing, too.
Sometimes you get what you pay for... Tucano is a bigger plane. Thats why it costs more.
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