You can't expect to put out a good and safe product when cost savings is your only focus. That's not how it works.
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777x program is bleeding $$$$ with no end in sight either.
It’s not Cost Saving, it’s bonus creation
Like the 787, wait until Boeing has to write off or "donate" the first several tankers built as they are junk.
Revision of revision of revised design. No EIP/bonus this year since BA would write off some charges for KC-46 tankers, 787 delivery
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/01/10/the-air-force-and-boeing-havent-yet-fixed-the-troubled-kc-46-pegasus-vision-system/
Which is how we get all the problems that we've been having.