Up to $250M Requested to Fix Kuwait’s C-130 Transports
Oct 08, 2007 13:27 UTC
On Oct 4/07, the US DSCA announced [PDF] Kuwait’s formal request to upgrade 3 L-100-30 aircraft (civilian stretched versions of the C-130E/H Hercules) to include modifications, spare and repair parts, support equipment, publications and technical data, flight engineer training, communications equipment, maintenance, personnel training and training equipment, U.S. Government and contractor engineering and logistics support services, preparation of aircraft for shipment, and other related elements of logistics support. The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $250 million.
That’s an odd amount, considering that the Kuwaitis could buy 3 completely new, higher capacity C-130J-30s with that amount of money, and still have funds left over.
