G2 Solutions @ August 13, 2010 # No Comment Yet
As the dust settle and facts emerge, Take a good read at Shiv’s morning MMRCA update, he brings up very strong points:
Sick of hearsay and rumours? Well, here’s some stuff that’s confirmed true, authoritative, new, and potentially explosive for contenders in the Medium Multirole Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition. Let me just start [...]
G2 Solutions @ March 11, 2010 # No Comment Yet
As we stated during our podcast with IAG on tuesday, EADS is simply not yet in a position to go after a program such as KC-X.
EADS North America Chief Executive Officer Sean O’Keefe says that while his company has built up its capacity to manage its first Pentagon prime contract — the UH-72A [...]
G2 Solutions @ July 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Approximately $10 Billion according to French newspaper Liberation this morning. France alone would have to assume $3.5 Billion of that amount and is categorically opposed to a program cancellation. Liberation also states that such a cancellation would cost in the area of $7 Billion. Simply too big, and much needed, to fail.
Airbus Military Photo
G2 Solutions @ June 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Airbus Military has started dry contacts with its A330 tanker using a new Cobham-designed hose and drogue refueling pod… From Ares on Defense
G2 Solutions @ April 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
EADS is competing against the Dassault, Indra and Thales team for the initial procurement of six new systems to France, Germany and Spain (and possibly Turkey). More information will be posted as it becomes available.
G2 Solutions @ February 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Quoting sources close to the program, Le Figaro newspaper reports this morning that the A400M airlift aicraft will suffer further delays. First flight is scheduled for 2010 and selected deliveries could take place from 2012. However most A400M customers will need to wait until 2014 to receive production aircraft, some 3-5 years behind the original [...]
G2 Solutions @ January 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Amy Butler provides some insight into the latest on that Tanker program. It would appear that the idea of a split is making good progress. Interesting how good ideas travel very slowly.
Split-Buy USAF Tanker Concept Gaining Favor
G2 Solutions @ January 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The rumor mill has plenty to say about the much troubled A400M these days. According to several sources, Airbus management has been studying a possible cancellation of the program.
Air & Cosmos has reported comments from Louis Gallois last week in which he indicated that EADS had seriously underestimated the complexity of the aircraft integration issues.
Cancellation? [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
According to this short Ares story
The Dew Line has posted EADS’ comments on 6-9 month MRTT delay
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G2 Solutions @ September 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The concept C-130XL appears (perception based comment) to have some ways to go before it can compete with A400M. Still, we believe LMT has some work to do with that wing. It will be an interesting competition no doubt, that of course, if EADS decides not to abandon all hopes to sell to DoD post [...]
G2 Solutions @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Suggested in the Dew Line, makes little to no sense to us at this stage of the competition, perhaps for later variants.
G2 Solutions @ August 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In the interest of fairness (one of the most overused word in the entire tanker saga), we turn our intention to last year’s issue about Northrop Grumman protesting the initial KPPs contained in the original RFP. Both articles are from the always excellent Graham Warwick, at the time writing for Flight International…
US Air Force to [...]
G2 Solutions @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For those who have been following this “fascinating” soap opera for less than a year or only through CNN”s Lou Dobbs, perhaps this article from 2004 can balance the current debate over “rewriting” specs
“WASHINGTON - The Air Force gave the Boeing Co. five months to rewrite the official specifications for 100 aerial refueling tankers so [...]
mmerluzeau @ July 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Some crucially valid points raised by Ron Sugar in this FT article, although we believe he errs on the high side when he claims 48,000 jobs are at stake.
mmerluzeau @ July 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“This is the wrong decision, you don’t want this big monstrous airplane…smaller is better.” In this election year, it is quite clear that the debate of ideas has reached unprecedented levels of mediocrity. We think he has a point though, USAF needs both aircraft (or equivalent); the problem is that it can only afford one.
mmerluzeau @ July 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Another demonstration of the extreme nature of the French judicial system eight years after the accident. The investigation has so far focused primarily on the role of Continental Airlines’ DC-10 in F-BTSC crash. There are many other contributing factors that ultimately sealed the aircraft fate that day, and that are only partially addressed by the [...]
