18 hours ago18 hr Big tankersBreaking DefenseUSAF should buy newly designed air refuelers to meet Chin...Although there’s a “temptation” to keep buying KC-46s, a plan to procure 75 more of the Boeing-made tankers should be an “upper limit” followed by a new, longer range tanker, the Hudson Institute’s TiFinish and fix the 46, interim big tanker 787 tanker while developing the BWB.Needs a cargo door but a looker, especially as a Guard tail.
2 hours ago2 hr 27 minutes ago, FourFans said:Yeah, how many would actually stay after getting that type rating?All of them for at least 10 years...
1 hour ago1 hr Author 1 hour ago, FourFans said:Yeah, how many would actually stay after getting that type rating?They would still go thru the full training program at airline X even with the type but it might make them more competitive to the hiring algorithm…The 787 tanker is a long shot but just for the interwebs. The A-330 MRTT NEO would be my recommendation (interim bigger wing tanker) but politics would likely be insurmountable.Still it brings up a good question, should the AF become more strategically oriented? That is focus on long range strike and effects, coming from a distance to mitigate the proliferation of short to mid range fires? I’m not saying the whole of the AF should be bombers and big fighters but part of the force design.
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