New Air Force cargo planes fly straight into mothballs
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/07/new-air-force-cargo-planes-fly-straight-into-mothballs/
US taxpayers subsidizing Italy.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/07/new-air-force-cargo-planes-fly-straight-into-mothballs/
The Pentagon is sending $50 million cargo planes straight from the assembly line to mothballs because it has no use for them, yet it still hasn’t stopped ordering the aircraft, according to a report.
A dozen nearly new Italian-built C-27J Spartans have been shipped to an Air Force facility in Arizona dubbed “the boneyard,” and five more currently under construction are likely headed for the same fate, according to an investigation by the Dayton Daily News. The Air Force has spent $567 million on 21 of the planes since 2007
http://www.janes.com/article/28059/pentagon-shops-for-new-c-27j-managersUSAF officials told IHS Jane's that they are looking for other Department of Defense or civilian agencies to take over management of the small twin-propeller cargo aircraft, which was designed to provide direct support to the US Army by supplementing CH-47 Chinook helicopters in ferrying small cargo to troops in the field.
So far, US Special Operations Command, the US Coast Guard, and US Forest Service have each submitted letters of interest asking to take over management of the C-27J, according to defence officials.
US taxpayers subsidizing Italy.