The two partners beat out a bid from Lockheed Martin and South Korea's Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), who had jointly submitted a version of the T-50 jet trainer, as well as an offer from Italy's Leonardo, who pitched a variant of their M346 design known as the T-100. Boeing was the only contender to submit a clean-sheet design, which it developed in cooperation with Sweden's Saab. The Air Force plans to purchase more than 350 new T-X aircraft to replace its T-38 Talon fleet, as well as nearly 50 training simulators, and other support equipment and services.
26, 2018, which Boeing later confirmed in a press release. Reuters was first to report the deal, valued at approximately $9.2 billion, on Sept. Navy to build their MQ-25A Stingray tanker drones. military aviation deals, with the other two being the contract to replace the Air Force's UH-1N helicopters and a deal with the U.S.
After a string of disappointments in recent years, just since August 2018, the Chicago-headquartered planemaker has now grabbed three major U.S. Air Force has awarded the multi-billion dollar contract to build the much-hyped T-X jet trainer to Boeing.
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