{"id":196737,"date":"2008-03-28T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/28\/more-tanker\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T21:33:00","slug":"more-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/28\/more-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"More tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the USAF and Northrop Grumman are requesting that the Boeing Challenge be rejected, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/marketsnews\/idUSWAT00919320080326\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120656634052666509.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.moneycentral.msn.com\/provider\/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&amp;date=20080326&amp;id=8389611\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of more import is the fact that the UK just signed a contract for $13 billion for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/27\/222521\/uk-signs-13-billion-tanker-deal.html\">A330 tankers<\/a>.  Note that the contract is different, as it is to replace the RAF&#8217;s Lockheed TriStar and Vickers VC10s, and the former are large, as opposed to medium tankers, but it points to a trend.<\/p>\n<p>I think that Boeing is out of the tanker business for the next 10 years, until the money is found to replace the KC-10 tankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the USAF and Northrop Grumman are requesting that the Boeing Challenge be rejected, see here, here, and here. Of more import is the fact that the UK just signed a contract for $13 billion for A330 tankers. Note that the contract is different, as it is to replace the RAF&#8217;s Lockheed TriStar and Vickers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196737"}],"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=196737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}