That's a very good question. The Global 6500 comes from a family of airplanes we launched years ago, and we just upgraded it with a new engine. We have about 1,000 of these flying in the world, so this is a robust platform with demonstrated capability. In fact, I was told at the Pentagon that this is the most reliable airplane, at 99.85%, of the entire fleet of the U.S. Air Force. That is a reliable aircraft that's been flying on the BACN program in Afghanistan for many years, and we're also flying on the GlobalEye.
This is what I was saying. Bombardier has modified 550 airplanes. When we modify an airplane for a project like this, what do we do? The engineers at Bombardier will review all the equipment that needs to be installed. It could be radar. It could be missiles, or whatever. We're going to reinforce the structure if needed, the wing or the fuselage, and we'll make the necessary modifications.
When this is done, our aerospace engineers will make sure that the airplane is still capable of flying, landing and doing all the stuff it's supposed to do. We've done this over and over—550 times. It could be an ambulance or something else. We have a GlobalEye flying today with Sweden with Saab as our partner, similar to what GDMS would be, installing equipment on our platform. It's being used by the EU. It will be used very soon by the Swedish. It's being used all around the world. There's a radar sitting on top of the fuselage that weighs a ton.
We know how to do this. We've done this over and over, and, with GDMS, we have one of the best partnerships based here in Ottawa, in Canada. Two leaders in the industry are knocking on the door saying that we're capable, we can do it and we've done it for other people, and we're not even being considered. That is a scandal.