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The fiscal 2011 Defense Department budget relegated $864 million in research and development money. A contract award was expected in summer 2010. [50] On 24 February 2010, the US Air Force released the revised request for proposal (RFP) for KC-X. The RFP called for the KC-X tanker to first fly in 2012 and aircraft deliveries to begin in 2013. [51]
The EADS/Northrop Grumman KC-45 was a proposed aerial refueling tanker aircraft based on the Airbus A330 MRTT. The United States Air Force (USAF) had ordered 179 KC-45As in the first stage of replacing the aging Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker tankers currently in service. However, the contest was reopened in July 2008, after Boeing's protest of the ...
An Italian Air Force KC-767 on the apron at McConnell AFB/Boeing Factory in Wichita, Kansas, in 2010. In February 2007, Boeing announced it was offering the KC-767 Advanced Tanker for the KC-X, [14] stating that the KC-767 was a better fit than the KC-777 for the requirements. [15] In April 2007, Boeing submitted its KC-767 tanker proposal to ...
Boeing (BA) has won the contract to build a new U.S. military aerial refueling tanker after a review by the Air Force. The government decision ended the efforts of rival European Aeronautic ...
It had a rocky start, but on Jan. 16, Boeing's KC-46A tanker program got some very welcome news: It's on schedule, and Boeing is assembling the fourth and final KC-46A test.
The tanker received the designation KC-767A, after being selected by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) initially to replace older KC-135Es. In December 2003, the contract was frozen and later canceled due to corruption allegations. The tanker was developed for the Italian and Japanese air forces, who ordered four tankers each. Financing of the ...
Boeing (BA) is expected to submit a bid for a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract today, as tensions build over subsidies to its rival, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company. EADS ...
The then Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld stated that that move would in no way impair the Air Force's ability to deliver the mission of the KC-767, which would be accomplished by implementing continuing upgrades to the KC-135 and KC-10 Extender fleet. In January 2007, the U.S. Air Force launched the KC-X program with a request for proposal (RFP).