Another Twist To The Air Force Tanker Bid Deadline
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Another Twist To The Air Force Tanker Bid Deadline
A Russian firm has bid on the Air Force Tanker program, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

A Russian firm has bid on the Air Force Tanker program, the Wall Street Journal reports.

United Aircraft Corp. of Russia is planning to bid on the $40 billion contract, the paper reports in its Saturday morning March 20th edition.

United Aircraft is owned by the Russian government and will offer a tanker version of its Illyushin II-96 wide-body jetliner, according the the author of the article, Peter Sanders.

Sanders also writes that the plan is for the planes to be "largely built in Russia, and assembled in the U.S.".


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