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USAF seeks bridge to cover air refueling gap
The Air Force is facing a gap in aerial refueling capacity through the mid-2020s as it retires aged KC-10 and KC-135 tankers faster than they can be replaced by the troubled KC-46A Pegasus or a follow-on tanker aimed at serving as a bridge between existing and next-generation capabilities. In 2021, the Air Force’s 442 operational KC-10s and KC-135s and 50 partially operational KC-46As were “likely capable” of delivering approximately 33 million pounds of fuel at 2,500 nautical miles, said… (www.nationaldefensemagazine.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Why to some of the less informed always try to make a political statement about what they obviously know nothing about and apply it to a aviation subject? Enough already!
My opinion is to get rid of the "Flying Boom" and just go with what the Navy, Marin Corp, and the rest of NATO uses Probe-and-Drogue system. Which can also tank 2 aircrafts at a time. Or just keep it as it was. One airman lying on his belly and looking through a glass straight at the aircraft getting refueled. Unless you install a Multiple-Point Refueling System "Buddy Pod"
The USAF uses a boom system because they needed a higher flow rate than is possible with a drogue and probe system. The USAF tanker fleet was designed to support the need of fuel thirst aircraft like the B-52, the C-5, The C-141.
Democrats are like, we don't need to be burning fossil fuel anyway, so what's the problem...
Brandon and the Demolition Party says Americans don't need AR15s. He has no need to project power with planet killing fossil fuels. To incompetent to kick Putin's ass out of Ukraine and green lighted a minor incursion. Total dunderhead loaded the Pentagon with CRT and global warming BS.
The USAF should have bought the A330 tanker. Far superior product, and ALREADY being delivered. This disaster is just another example of the slow-moving train wreck that is Boeing. But of course in ‘Merica, we can’t have one of them foreign airplanes in our Air Force.
belly of a tanker and have them give fuel to the planes!!