Carlton Everhart told reporters Tuesday that a KC-46 boom-scraping issue -- recently characterized as a category-one deficiency -- could delay initial deliveries of the new tanker.The Air Force is closely tracking the incidents in which the tanker's aerial refueling probe scrapes its receiver ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force will delay a full-rate production milestone forthe KC-46 aerial refueling tankerto the end of fiscal 2024 to correspond witha fix for one of the aircraft’s key systems, the service announced late Monday. The Pentagon’s independent weapons tester ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to top aircraft maker Boeing Company (Boeing) on the sale of second KC-46 tanker to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), Boeing said on Monday. The KC-46 military aerial refueling and strategic military tr...
"This milestone is important in that it is one of the last major hurdles in advance of first delivery to the U.S. Air Force," said Mike Gibbons, Boeing KC-46A tanker vice president and program manager. The KC-46 is a multirole tanker derived from Boeing's commercial 767 airframe to pr...
A full complement of KC-46 tankers fulfilled the aerial refueling mission during the scenario, but were kept out of high-threat environments. The Air Force also experimented with several notional next-generation tanker designs to understand the trade-offs between fielding many small tankers capable ...
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On May 5-6, a KC-46A Pegasus tanker assigned to the 22nd Air Refueling Wing at McConnell AFB, Kan., flew more than 24 hours straight--the longest mission in the history of Air Mobility Command (AMC), according to the U.S. Air Force. During the more than 9,000-mile journey, rotati...
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America's decision to compete in the Air Force's aerial refueling tanker aircraft program against Boeing, which won the competition in February, generated unit-cost savings of at least 20 percent, wringing as much as $4 billion from estimated program costs compared to the 2008 tanker contest. ...
The C295 can be rapidly converted into a tactical tanker with a roll-on/roll-off kit, enabling it to perform day and night air-to-air refuelling (AAR) of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. AAR Kit: efficient air-to-air refuelling for tactical missions ...