BELFAST — Amid ongoing British E-7 Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) acquisition troubles, an official charged with leading UK defense reform and investment planning took aim at US giant Boeing today, citing the manufacturer’s internal “difficulties.”
Rupert Pearce, national armaments director at the UK Ministry of Defence, said the MoD had expected to get an E-7 that had largely been “proven out” in Australia, which has been flying the plane for more than a decade, but it took so long for Boeing to deliver that there was a “much higher level of obsolescense.” The certification of new components, he said, caused additional “very significant delays.”
“What we’ve discovered with Wedgetail is [problems with] producer timing,”…
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