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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 Boeing KC-46 Pegasus is an American military aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft developed by Boeing from its 767 jet airliner.In February 2011, the tanker was selected by the United States Air Force (USAF) as the winner in the KC-X tanker competition to replace older Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers.
The Boeing KC-767 is a military aerial refueling tanker and transport aircraft developed from the Boeing 767-200ER. 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.
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 ...
The KC-46 tanker that Boeing is building for the United States Air Force is on track for a major design review in July. Considering that Boeing is looking at absorbing an estimated $700 million in ...
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 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 ...
At stake are 50,000 jobs paid for by American taxpayers in exchange for 179 tankers -- gas cans with wings that the Air Force uses for in-flight refueling of military aircraft (artist's rendering ...