Yes it IS different.

It's a MILITARY contract.

This isn't the same as outsourcing an automaker's job. Our entire Air Force is dependant on air tankers.

I'm all for the world economy, specialization ol labor, and free trade. Shopping out huge military contracts to foreign manufacturers concerns me, though.
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