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...more on the cost overruns atCrown witness and Army of the Czech Republic (ACR) pilot Karel Danhel
has testified before a Czech court
that the selection of the EADS
CASA (now Airbus Defence and Space) C295M tactical transport aircraft
by the Czech Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 2009
was a flawed procurement.
“The CASA [C295] failed to meet key criteria concerning operational range and payload requirements.
In terms of fuel consumption and operating costs, it ranked first.
If you were to fly the aircraft without payload or to Brussels and back it would be fine,” Danhel testified on 19 December.
He said the aircraft’s performance was “one-third lower”
than that of the Alenia C-27J Spartan,
which led in the MoD procurement process.
“I have never heard of a single occasion when the CASA was sent on missions to Afghanistan,
which was the key priority for its selection,” Danhel informed the court.
http://www.janes.com/article/76799/czec ... court-told