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Not only Qatar, the US Navy was not accepting those either since a while back. Don't know if that ever changed.

• throw0101a 6y ago
  > Not only Qatar, the US Navy was not accepting those either since a while back. The whole KC-46 tanker program is quite the mess as well: * https://www.defensenews.com/air/2020/03/31/the-air-forces-kc-46-tanker-has-another-serious-technical-deficiency-and-boeing-is-stuck-paying-for-it/ https://www.defensenews.com/air/2020/03/31/the-air-forces-kc... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-46_Pegasus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-46_Pegasus
  • bilbo0s 6y ago
    At what point do you start to wonder if this level of mismanagement is purposeful? The number of flaws across multiple different programs. (Serious flaws no less.) The number of management missteps. It just feels almost like either a purposeful tanking, or the sort of slow motion, but accelerating, collapse that happens when you've filled every level of an organization with less than able people.
    • jen729w 6y ago
      To what end?
      • mschuster91 6y ago
        Upper management whose KPI are solely on base of profit make a couple of big fat paychecks over the year as ever more and more is gutted. Now that the dung pile has grown so big that it touches the ceiling fan, that guard of beancounter managers has long moved on to other companies to raze...