Wasn't it weird enough that US Aerospace, a company nobody previously knew, joined the nearly 10-year-old KC-X competition one week before the bids were due, proposing two non-existent and one actual aircraft -- and all three designed in post-Soviet Ukraine -- and dispatching a bonded messenger with apparently vague instructions to deliver a $29 billion proposal to the main gate at Wright-Patterson AFB, then protesting the US Air Force's decision to reject the whole idea because it was allegedly submitted five minutes too late?
When you think about it, that was pretty darn strange.
So when they issue a press release that confirms the protest has failed, but misidentifies the name of their own aircraft as the "An-122KC" instead of the "An-112KC", it all sort of fits, doesn't it?
(Background: An-122KC was one of three options US Aerospace originally proposed when they joined the competition in early July. It is a concept for a twin-engined version of the An-124. The company actually proposed the An-112KC, which was a twin-jet, tanker version of the An-70 airlifter. But somebody at US Aerospace apparently got confused.)
When you think about it, that was pretty darn strange.
So when they issue a press release that confirms the protest has failed, but misidentifies the name of their own aircraft as the "An-122KC" instead of the "An-112KC", it all sort of fits, doesn't it?
(Background: An-122KC was one of three options US Aerospace originally proposed when they joined the competition in early July. It is a concept for a twin-engined version of the An-124. The company actually proposed the An-112KC, which was a twin-jet, tanker version of the An-70 airlifter. But somebody at US Aerospace apparently got confused.)
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