No, not every five years. We don't have the infrastructure, planes are taken to the United States and completely dismantled there.
We strip the plane totally.
And if this isn't our intellectual property, then that's not a good thing, my friend.
For the tacticals, it will be sole source, for a total of $4.9 billion. The C-17 is an unnecessary purchase, in my opinion. It could have been rented; that would have been my plan B. It's a sole source. Now, as for the Fixed Wing SAR, some people seem to be getting their knickers in a knot over them. Will they also be sole sourced? Is the government making it a habit of having everything sole sourced?