Ther marketing and aftersales will still avaible, but with much lower impact than before. Saab will reorganize their strategiy in here ince they made a comebacl
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Indeed. I too found the previous comparative study of air-tanker released by TNI-AU to be baffling. Other than cost, it seems obvious that the A330 MRTT to be above the other two contenders (KC-46 & IL-78), but then the report chooses to throw in metrics that I found quite odd, like numbers of runway the A330 vs 767 can land in, I mean it's tanker aircraft at first with cargo as a secondary role. They also give the MRO point to 767, which I also find it to be strange.If true, then this AU preference for the KC-46 over the MRTT is truly baffling... even RSAF, a very US centric airforce and former operator of KC135R, prefers the MRTT over KC-46... AU never operates B767s before, not even our civilian airliners does, neither is our existing MRO facilities equipped to handle it.. and even if it does, KC-46 is so very different from std B767s that it hardly matters.. KC-46 is basically a franken B767 with mishmashed parts taken from different variants of B767... and it still got issues today even after a long development time...
I really can't find the logic of why the AU is even interested in this plane...if true that is...
Precisely if you're friend with everybody you're friend with nobody.
48 rafale and 16 gowind, 3 scorpene?
dont forget LR SAM / ABM .
Look at the text, it's an LOI between MinDef and the French. Which means nothing.
It's mostly since the Air Force primarily operates Boeing and US made aircraft. As me and @Gen3115 have said before, the Air Force genuinely prefers American made.
LOL buluk saga....anyway this time is abit more and perhaps rather crucial as it might involve decission maker.
Oh man Ima have wet dream tonight
, viva spectra 
And the lobby start, they have one month. Lets see how they dance
Mark esper will come here next month?
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Haha, I was being facetious due to the fact that Arman sounded so happy in his tweet
. Should've known it won't translate well over the screen. I remember this. It strikes me as odd and out of place at the time.
Yeah, you can say that again! I won't believe it until the said items have arrived and painted with our registration number.
I get that, but how thick are the SME's within TNI-AU can be insisting on Pegasus with its known teething issues? When even THREE of the traditional U.S customers (RSAF, RAAF, & ROKAF) picked MRTT over the Pegasus. Our experience with Boeing in the past decade has only been with the narrow-bodied classic 737's, and I'm not sure how much of the similarity between that and the KC-46. We operated a 707, but that was ages ago.
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