Air Force Begins Search For New Refueling Tanker as Lawmakers Push Airbus The U.S. Air Force posted aContracting Opportunityfor new tankers. The “Sources Sought” request is “to determine if there exists an adequate number of qualified interested contractors capable of providing solutions to meet...
They would also successfully employ chaff on a number of occasions, though to decreasing effect, as the US Army began to employ more advanced centimetric search radars that were less vulnerable to it. On Iwo Jima, for instance, raiders would typically use chaff roughly thirty miles out from ...
The planetary pinions were not identified as critical parts because of their aforementioned redundancy, but the engineers noted that if a pinion broke in two, the results would be catastrophic as large pieces would disrupt the planetary system. The next part of the risk equation was p...