DAB begins review of navy multi-mission aircraft
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The US Navy's Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA), which is a program to replace the service's aging P-3C Orion long-range submarine hunter, was reviewed by the Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) prior to approving its planned $1.6 billion early development phase. The development phase, which is being competed for by Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co., will be followed by a procurement program for approximately 150 aircraft and it is anticipated that international sales could double that number.
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Year: 2004
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EADS completes development of aerial tanker
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The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) completed successfully a flight test after a three-year effort to develop a refueling boom for an aerial refueling tanker plane. EADS reveals that the Airbus refueling boom was tested with an F-16 fighter aircraft and the test flights were performed on March 16 to March 30, 2006 and Airbus would offer the plane to the Air Force through a US headquartered company, Northrop Grumman Corp.
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Year: 2006
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Boeing, suppliers invested $1 billion developing tankers
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The Boeing Company and its suppliers have invested almost $1 billion of their own money for developing the KC-767 aerial refueling tanker aircraft that Boeing hopes the Air Force will buy. The investment of private money comes amidst a trans-Atlantic dispute over private funding of Boeing aircraft development programs, versus European government subsidies in development of some Airbus Industrie aircraft.
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