"This new aircraft will pro­vide the ad­vanced train­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties we need to in­crease the le­thal­i­ty and ef­fec­tive­ness of fu­ture Air Force pil­ots,” Wilson wrote. Then, this week, it won a $2.4 billion con­tract to re­place the Air Force’s ag­ing UH-1N heli­cop­ters. The T-X contract win“is a di­rect re­sult of our joint in­vest­ment in de­vel­op­ing a sys­tem centered on the unique re­quire­ments of the U.S. Air Force. “We were disappointed to learn that the U.S. Air Force did not select our offering,” a Lockheed Martin spokesman said in a statement Thursday. Others worried about which capabilities the Air Force dropped by bidding the price so low.

Source: Washington Post September 27, 2018 21:07 UTC