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Mon, Apr 26, 2010

EADS North America Starts The Tanker PR Game In Motion... Again

Launches Website 'Featuring The Only KC-X Tanker Entrant Flying Today'

It's been a long-drawn-out war of words, politics, and finances as the Air Force STILL finds itself without a modern tanker to fill the needs of tomorrow's warfighters.

EADS North America has waded back into the game (reluctantly, we hear) and has just published a new website with THEIR side of the issue... 

Late Friday, EADS North America launched www.kc-45now.com, a new website detailing why the American-made KC-45 aerial refueler is the clear choice to meet the U.S. Air Force’s 21st Century tanker requirements. The new site features video and photography of the KC-45 tanker in flight conducting refueling operations, as well as facts and information about the aerial refueling system.
 
EADS North America announced this week it will offer its KC-45 for the Air Force’s tanker modernization competition and touts the bird as "the only tanker in the competition that is in production and flying today."

If selected by the Air Force, EADS claims that "the KC-45 will be built at a new production facility in Mobile, Alabama, and will be supported by more than 200 suppliers across the country. The facility also will build commercial freighters, creating or supporting tens of thousands of American jobs. EADS North America’s KC-45 is the U.S. military version of EADS’ proven A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT), which has been selected over Boeing tankers in five consecutive head-to-head competitions. To date, 28 of these aircraft have been ordered by U.S. allies around the world. The A330 MRTT has transferred more than 265,000 lbs. of fuel to a range of military  aircraft – from F-16 and F/A-18 fighters to the E-3 AWACS – using the same proven refueling systems offered on the KC-45."

The new web site, www.kc-45now.com, includes video and photos of those refueling operations, as well as a virtual tour of the cockpit.

So; gentlemen and ladies, start your PR vehicles... its sure to be quite the race...

FMI: www.kc-45now.com

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