Doesn’t have to be the f-35's equal. It just has to be better than most of what’s out there, which isn’t a big step for the F-18.

The first rule of foreign policy: everyone is self-interested. Altruism exists, but not among nation states. Of course Europe is going to have limited defense spending, it means they can direct spending elsewhere and the act is relatively risk free due to how closely their foreign policy aligns with the United States.…

The whole history of the entire procurement process all the way through the development and soon the deployment of the KC-46 is a cluster. Boeing trying to lease KC-767s to the Air Force while working no-bid deals and paying off and sleeping with the procurement agents. Shameful. People rightfully went to jail over…

Ah, the KC-46. The airplane I ended my career at Boeing with. What a train-wreck that thing is. If you only knew the half of it, you would be shocked. Boeing will never make a single penny on that program. Not one. First thing is that the major airframe structure is actually based on the 767-400 freighter. What is…