SubscribeThe Pentagon this week awarded Boeing separate contracts for 15 KC-46A Pegasus tankers and seven P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft. Both contracts had been widely expected, but nonetheless represented good news for Boeing, whose beleaguered Defense and Security business lost $2 Bn in its last quarterly report. Boeing has delivered 89 KC-46As to the US Air Force to date, as well as four to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. US domestic orders mean that the KC-46 is notionally the world’s most successful new generation tanker, though the rival A330 MRTT has many more export customers, and is viewed by many as a superior tanker aircraft. Interestingly, Boeing issued a press release about the KC-46A contract but, at the time of writing, had not issued one about the new Lot 13 production P-8A contract.

Source: Ethiopian News November 24, 2024 19:01 UTC