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Boeing shed 3.2 percent today even as the State Department cleared a 4.5 billion dollar potential foreign military sale to Qatar covering KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft. Here's the nuance: an FMS notification is government authorization to negotiate, not a signed contract — so 4.5 billion dollars on a press release isn't revenue. The market knows Boeing's KC-46A program has already racked up billions in overruns and years of delivery delays with the Air Force. The defense segment is supposed to be Boeing's steady earner. Instead, every new KC-46A commitment lands on a manufacturer still managing 737 production backlogs and 787 inspection cycles simultaneously. Watch how management frames international FMS capacity on the next earnings call — that's the number that rewrites the narrative.
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