Airbus A400M getting counted for technical K.O.

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Lurchi

A400 M - well, i always found it logical to buy this sort of plane from the specialists: Antonow. The Ukraine buys stuff from us so why not give them back and get some of their obviously good Transport planes which the Army used anyway (through leasing). The Antonow 70 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-70 is a quite obvious choice.

I guess it's the same why the MiG 29 were given away err, I meant sold.
If you want to be militarily active then you can't afford to have unstable sources for military equipment.
Besides a Airbus keeps jobs in Germany/France, a Antonow in Ukraine.