{"id":188810,"date":"2010-07-25T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/25\/this-is-not-a-serious-kc-x-bid\/"},"modified":"2010-07-25T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T10:45:00","slug":"this-is-not-a-serious-kc-x-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/25\/this-is-not-a-serious-kc-x-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not A Serious KC-X Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Trimble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2010\/07\/07\/344125\/antonov-team-asks-dod-for-60-day-freeze-on-kc-x-competition.html\">has their PowerPoint<\/a>, (the link is no good) and it is simply not a credible proposal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 425px;\"><strong style=\"display: block; margin: 12px 0pt 4px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/TheDEWLine\/an-112-kc\" title=\"An 112 kc\">An 112 kc<\/a><\/strong><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=an112kc-100710063555-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=an-112-kc\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed name=\"__sse4725300\" src=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=an112kc-100710063555-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=an-112-kc\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>As you can see, it is a twin turbofan variant of the An-70 quad turboprop transport, and I would note that the rough\/austere capabilities shown on slide 8 include a an AN-70 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">crashed<\/span> in the snow, which is a pretty good indication of the fact that the bidders are &#8220;not ready for prime time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, as I have noted before, a high wing aircraft is 50+ kts slower, which means that getting on station takes more time, and the advantages, austere field capability and the ability to paradrop people and cargo, are not a part of a requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Trimble has their PowerPoint, (the link is no good) and it is simply not a credible proposal. An 112 kc As you can see, it is a twin turbofan variant of the An-70 quad turboprop transport, and I would note that the rough\/austere capabilities shown on slide 8 include a an AN-70 crashed in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}