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Tanker affair (2): American taxpayers' approval of Pentagons' decision for postponing the final choice

Washington, USA - The KC-135 could anyway remain in service till 2040

Taxpayers associations in the United States have welcomed Pentagon's choice for postponing to the end of the year the final decision on Boeing's programme, devoted to replacing air tankers' fleet for the US Air Force. One among these ones in particular, Citizens Against Government Waste, has underlined how an analysis related to exorbitant costs for a leasing aimed to purchase 100 767 Tankers had already...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 63887
Rome, Italy, 05/27/2004 14:56
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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