Boeing is the only company that I know of as a former defense correspondent that offered journalists a free business class flight, free passes at a luxurious strip club in the United States.
The U.S. aerospace giant was also the only company that threatened me not to publish such articles as Boeing’s F-15K jets fly blind to enemy attacks andBoeing backtracks on stealthy jet offer.
I still vividly remember Song Sang-ho, a Korea Herald reporter and a good friend of mine, desperately asking me to go back to our Boeing-sponsored fancy hotel rooms in Mesa, Arizona, when brought to a cabaret with topless girls.
A defense industry source once told me the lavish provision of entertainment along with free food, free hotels, free drinks and free flights to journalists was a key factor in Boeing’s winning of Korea’s two previous fighter jet acquisition programs.
Beside all these unethical business practices, there are plenty of other reasons to eliminate Boeing from the FX-III competition, under which Korea planned to acquire 60 advanced fighter aircraft with a budget of 8.3 trillion won ($7.5 billion).
First, it lied to the Korean people that it would offer stealth technology. Boeing pledged to provide a list of stealth technologies when it successfully sold its 60 F-15Ks to Korea but has yet to fulfill its promises.
Secondly, it lied to us that it would undertake a major retrofit of its F-15 fighter jets to improve the effectiveness of its radar counter-measures.
An industrial source said hardly any progress had been made in the making of the F-15 Silent Eagle, an upgrade version of the F-15 offered in the FX-III, especially in the development of its conformal weapons bay (CWB) and canted vertical tails.
A senior official of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), which has been carrying out research and development of the F-15 SE’s internal weapons bay, told me last year that “Only 10 percent of work has been completed for the research and development of the F-15SE’s conformal weapons bay.” ‘
KAI signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Boeing in 2010 for the production of the F-15SE’s conformal weapons bays.
Boeing would have had a better chance of winning the FX-III if it were a little more honest in explaining the limitations of its fourth generation F-15s, rather than trying to conceal unfavorable facts.
“Over my dead body,” a top Air Force official in charge of maintenance of fighter jets, said when asked about his opinion on the introduction of the F-15SE.
He said Korea wasted enough money and learned a lesson from the FX-I and FX-II that any upgrade exclusively offered to Korea would result in nightmares to maintenance personnel.
Boeing should think twice before complaining and even filing a lawsuit against the Korean government over the latest decision to reject its F-15, which rolled out in 1972 and became the only candidate in the FX-III race.
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1. ボーイングは取材陣にもビジネスクラスの旅行表とストリップクラブを提供する会社でした. 2. 巨大航空会社であるボーイングは接待過程で F-15Kの性能未達とステルスに対する力無さに関する記事を載せることができないように 脅かしました. 3.私が相議脱衣した女とキャバレーにある時, 懇意な宋相互記者(コリアヘラルド)の挽留をまだ忘れることができません. 4.ボーイングのこのような饗応接待は過去二度の事業落札に重要な要因になりました. 非倫理的 事業慣行のみならずボーイングが脱落したところにはさまざまな理由があります. 5.初目ではステルス技術の提供に対して偽り約束をしました. - F-15Kの売り値成功したらステルス技術を移転するものと言ったがそれが 移行 になるにはまだあまりにも遠かったです. 7. ふたつ目ではボーイングが F-15に大大的な電子装備改良を通じてレーダー戦術の效果が改善するはずだから嘘をつきました. 8. 産業消息筋は F-15SEを開発する過程で特にギョングサミイックと CWBの開発にどんな進展もないことを明らかにしました. 9. KAIの高位役員は F-15の CWB 研究開発が 10% 水準の外に完成されなかったと伝えました. 10. KAIは 2010年ボーイングと CWB生産のための了解覚書(MOU)を締結しました. 11. ボーイングが 良くない事実を覆おうと思うより 4世代期の F-15の限界性に対して少しでも率直だったら FX-3でそれさえも勝算があったはずです. 12. F-15SEの導入に対して空軍高位幹部の立場(入場)を問おう ¥"かえって私の死骸を踏んで行きなさい.¥"は返事を聞きました. 13. 彼は ¥"韓国専用の改良¥"が維持補修にいくら悪夢をもたらすのか FX-1,2で高い対価を受けたと言いました. 14. ボーイングは F-15SEを否決した最近の決定に対して韓国政府を相手で訴訟を申し立てようとすれば深思熟考しなければならないだろう. 特別な 設計変更なしにF-15E ベースに塗料だけ塗って レーダーアップグレードすることで 提示が なったと言います 不正行為もして.. ボーイングも信じる事ができないやつだね.. そのまま seはあきらめて F-18や提示しなさいkk