{"id":195268,"date":"2008-07-20T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/767-for-tanker-rebid\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T12:19:00","slug":"767-for-tanker-rebid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/767-for-tanker-rebid\/","title":{"rendered":"767 for Tanker Rebid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/13\/225300\/boeing-to-stick-with-kc-767-for-us-tanker-recompete.html\">Boeing will stick with the 767 for the rebid of the tanker program<\/a>.  They have only a few months to respond, and going with, for example, a shortened 777 would be a very difficult thing.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the A330 is a better plain, and the A330 MRTT, which is the airframe that Airbus is using, is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">flying now<\/span>, even while Boeing is struggling to deliver its 767 tanker to Italy, which is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">not<\/span> the same airframe as is proposed for the US tanker.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus is clearly the better choice, even the GAO review said that while faulting the selection process, but politics being what it is, I would give Airbus a no better than 50\/50 chance of winning this if it ends up a soul source bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that Boeing will stick with the 767 for the rebid of the tanker program. They have only a few months to respond, and going with, for example, a shortened 777 would be a very difficult thing. The problem is that the A330 is a better plain, and the A330 MRTT, which is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1016,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-international-commerce","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195268"}],"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=195268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}