Boeing to make new multiyear Osprey offer

[unhappycamper]

Boeing to make new multiyear Osprey offer
By John Reed - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday May 5, 2010 16:41:50 EDT

Boeing is preparing to offer the Pentagon another multiyear deal for the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotors used by the Marine Corps and Air Force, company officials said.

“We’re fully pursuing a second multiyear on the V-22,” Boeing’s V-22 program manager, Gene Cunningham, said during a news conference at a Navy League-sponsored conference in Maryland. “We’re working with our industry partners to put together the right business case” so the offer could be considered for the 2013 budget.

The deal could include a foreign buyer or other government agencies, Cunningham said.

He gave no specific quantities of aircraft, but said the deal would likely include the last seven of the Air Force’s 50 CV-22s.

The company is determining what impact these additional customers will have on the V-22 production line, which is gearing up to build 40 tilt-rotors per year for the Pentagon by 2014.



unhappycamper comment: This pig in a poke costs $100 million dollars each. It's expensive to buy, it's expensive to fly, and it's expensive to maintain. On the plus side that $5 billion (50 Ospreys) isn't needed for anything useful like teachers, roads, bridges, firemen, libraries, etc. etc.. :sarcasm: