The US Air Force has issued a new request for proposal for an Afghan Light Air Support aircraft program. Hopefully, it will work out better than the last time round with no one suing each other this time...
It's for 20 turboprop attack aircraft worth about $355 million, with dubious prospects for further orders. Despite the tiny contract amount, there has been a disproportionate amount of attention paid to the program.
Not only that, Sierra Nevada/Embraer and Hawker Beechcraft
are in what looks like a vicious winner take-all fight to the death (not
literally). That's for an amount that's roughly worth not much more than a
single Boeing C-17 Globemaster.
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