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In response to
"those refueling tanker planes date back to the Korean war and are still prop planes, plans for new jets have been throttled in corrupt bidding 20 year -- nm"
by
zeitgeist
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Tankers are a mess but they're a little more recent than that 8-) They've been jets since uh, well 707 days but
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Jun 10 '20, 12:06
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they have new engines and been re-winged.
The oldest have been retired or gone to ANG. Those are the KC-135.
There are newer (relatively) tankers based on the DC-10 and in a lack of imagination operate under the KC-10 Extender designation.
The bidding mess one is the KC-46 and based on the 767. Well, I guess it is a technical mess as well. I got to see one on static display at an Air Show at Travis AFB last year.
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