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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/world/...=5043&_r=0
I bet that whoever builds the MD-350 got a nice bonus from the Pentagon, though!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/world/...=5043&_r=0
Quote:U.S. Is Struggling in Its Effort to Build an Afghan Air Force
Quote:Sixteen of the armed MD-530 scout helicopters were rushed here this year to great fanfare, and a dozen more are to join them. But Colonel Qalandari was not impressed. “This plane is a total mess,” he said. “To be honest, I don’t know why we have this plane here.”
An Afghan public affairs officer tried to shush the colonel as he spoke to a journalist at the Afghan Air Force base at Kabul airport. A United States Air Force public affairs officer looked on aghast.
I bet that whoever builds the MD-350 got a nice bonus from the Pentagon, though!