Venus6971 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1409 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1932 times:
Why? They have 4 barely used KE-3a's come to think about they some hardley used E-3A's.
Venus6971 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1409 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1856 times:
Here is what they use now , only flown on Sundays by a little old Shiek from Al Kharj . In the background it appears that this pic was taken at Prince Sultan AB
Lumberton From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 4708 posts, RR: 21 Reply 5, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1843 times:
According to this Reuters article, the champagne corks popped too soon:
KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11706 posts, RR: 52 Reply 7, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 21 hours ago) and read 1754 times:
Quoting Venus6971 (Reply 2): Why? They have 4 barely used KE-3a's come to think about they some hardley used E-3A's.
New tankers for the RSAF makes no sense. The KE-3s they already have are only about 18 years old, and they don't use those to often.
Quoting Breiz (Reply 6): Quoting Lumberton (Reply 5):
According to this Reuters article, the champagne corks popped too soon:
France flip-flops over Saudi air tanker deal
Quite right. Morons!
Now, a misstep like this makes even less sense. Timing means a lot to the Saudis, if they were not ready to announce a buy of 2 A-330MRTTs, they may just walk away from the deal. This could be a major imbarassment to them, and their image with the US.
Flying-Tiger From Germany, joined Aug 1999, 4111 posts, RR: 39 Reply 8, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 20 hours ago) and read 1742 times:
Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 7): Now, a misstep like this makes even less sense. Timing means a lot to the Saudis, if they were not ready to announce a buy of 2 A-330MRTTs, they may just walk away from the deal. This could be a major imbarassment to them, and their image with the US.
That info has been floating around for several weeks now, I can remember to have read something about this in early December IIRC. Talk has always been about two or three A330 MRTT, so the press report now is not really this surprising.
KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11706 posts, RR: 52 Reply 9, posted (6 years 3 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1658 times:
Quoting Flying-Tiger (Reply 8): That info has been floating around for several weeks now, I can remember to have read something about this in early December IIRC. Talk has always been about two or three A330 MRTT, so the press report now is not really this surprising.
I had not heard that. Was it only reported in the EU? It could have been as a 2 airplane buy, even for military aircraft is not real big news. At least not as big as Anna Nichol Smith dieing and Senator Obama announcing he is running for the POTUS (God help us, Presidential campaines were very painful when they only ran for a year, this one will run for 2 years).
After all, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, CBC, CNN, MSNBC, and FoxNews know what is real news.
KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11706 posts, RR: 52 Reply 11, posted (6 years 3 months 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1571 times:
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