managed and the manufacturer of the Italian Leonardo announced a few hours ago its withdrawal from the tender process for the selection of the new educational of the USAF (T-X), in which they had fallen by proposing a vehicle of the aircraft which was encoded as T-100.
This announcement comes almost a year after the announcement of the alliance of two companies with the object the cathode in the contest. According to what announced giving reasons for its decision of withdrawing from the contest, were unable to reach an agreement in the business part of the negotiation with the us air Force.
The two companies report that they remain confident that their proposal was very strong. The aircraft M-346 Master, the construction of the group Leonardo, through its subsidiary Alenia Aermacchi, resulted from the collaboration of the Italian side with the Russians for the construction of a “δυτικοποιημÎνης” version of the training Yakovlev Yak-130.
It is a completely different aircraft now, as well as the M-346 have been completed modern electronic systems (avionics), while to descend in the contest of the USAF, it is natural that many systems would be american-made.
Now, the competition for the program of the T-X might evolve into a competition between the αεÏοναυπηγικοÏÏ‚ and aerospace giants Lockheed Martin and Boeing, which have presented their own proposals.
The first proposal for the existing and tried and tested T-50 Golden Eagle, which was developed together with KAI (Korean Aerospace Industries) and the second aircraft developed in cooperation with the Swedish Saab.
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Out of the race for the training of the USAF, the M-346!
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