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Boeing is getting shut out of the fighter jet market. Once that's gone, what will it have left?
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Boeing’s Secret Weapon(s)Boeing’s AH-64 Apache attack helicopter – revealed! Source: Wikimedia Commons
AH-64 Apache Attack HelicopterBoeing’s Apache is one
of the world’s most popular combat
helicopters, ranking No. 5 on the list.
Last year, Boeing delivered 37 new
Apaches to customers foreign and domestic – and “remanufactured” 45 more. It sold more
Apaches than F-15s and F-18s combined!
Source: Wikimedia Commons
CH-47 Chinook TransportRight behind the Apache in popularity is its load-bearing brother, the CH-
47 Chinook.
Boeing sold nearly as many Chinooks as
Apaches in 2013 – 14 remanufactures, and 44
shiny, brand-new whirlybirds.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
P-8 Poseidon SubhunterEach P-8 Poseidon
“multi-mission maritime aircraft” costs as much as $280 million a pop – seven times the cost of an F-15E Strike Eagle.
Last year, Boeing sold 11 of them, generating
more than $3 billion in revenues.
Source: Boeing
C-17 Globemaster III TransportBoeing’s C-17 is one of
the world’s most popular combat
transports, ranking No. 4 on the list.
Last year, Boeing sold 10 of them, generating about $3.3 billion in
revenues for the planemaker.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
V-22 Osprey TiltrotorLess a combat bird and
more of a transport, the V-22 Osprey – built in
cooperation with Textron – is a growth
driver for Boeing.
Last year alone, Boeing built 36 Osprey
fuselages for its joint venture with Textron, the “Bell-Boeing Joint
Project Office.”
Source: Wikimedia Commons
UGM-84L Harpoon II Anti-Ship MissileAn upgrade of the original Harpoon,
Boeing’s Block II variant features all-weather,
over-the-horizon, strike capability – and the
capacity to strike targets on land.
Boeing sold 29 of them last year... and Taiwan just confirmed taking
delivery of three dozen more.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
GBU-31 ”JDAM” Joint Direct Attack MunitionWant a smart bomb, but all you’ve got handy is a
dumb bomb? Boeing solves that problem with
its JDAM guidance kit.
Attached to an ordinary air-dropped bomb,
JDAM uses an inertial guidance system plus GPS receiver to place each bomb right on
target.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial VehicleFormer Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen thinks
manned fighter jets are 20th century tech, and
unmanned aerial vehicles are the wave of the future.
Boeing’s riding that wave with its ScanEagle UAV.
Despite costing just $72,000 each, the system
has generated tens of millions of dollars for
Boeing already.
Source: Boeing
And so you see, even without combat fighter jets, Boeing’s defense business is still big
business.
What we’ve shown you so far is only a small portion of Boeing’s many defense businesses – only a few of which involve the building
of hi-tech fighter jets.
In addition to these, there’s the Small Diameter Bomb, the Standoff Land Attack Missile, AWACS airborne early warning aircraft, and of
course, the KC-46A Tanker Program still getting underway.
Manned fighter jets? Like, with real pilots aboard? How quaint.
Together with the revenues from Boeing’s $7.6 billion network and space systems business, and its $8.6 billion global services & support business, these non-fighter jet-building businesses
generated some $27 billion for Boeing last year.
That’s nearly 84% of total revenues from Boeing’s defense, space & security division.
And did we mention that Boeing also builds commercial airplanes?
That part of the business accounted for more than $42 billion in revenues at Boeing in 2012.
So yeah, combined with the $27 billion in non-fighter jet-building revenues Boeing rakes in every year, I think
Boeing’s going to do just fine...
Even if it never sells another fighter jet to anyone, anywhere, ever again.
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