After years of budgetary wandering and reckless spending, the Pentagon's budget is today the object of all the attentions, as well by the staffs as the executive and the Congress, ...
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The vulnerability of tankers worries the US Air Force
There are no hunters without supply vessels! This sentence "No fighters Without Tankers" alone sums up one of the main doctrines of the US Air Force over the past 60…
Read the articleBoeing restarts KC-46 and P-8 production after three weeks of shutdown
On March 25, Boeing announced that it was ceasing production of airliners at its various production sites in the Puget Sound region, near Seattle. Washington State ...
Read the articleKC-46: more bad news for Boeing
Since the launch of the USAF KC-46 Pegasus refueller program, technical problems, delays and additional costs have accumulated, to such an extent that the thirty aircraft already delivered today ...
Read the articleKC-46 Pegasus faces new technical problems, further increasing pressure on Boeing
For Boeing, the woes of the KC-46 Pegasus program increasingly seem like a never-ending story. While the purchase of 179 new tankers is essential for operations ...
Read the articleBoeing suspends production of P-19 Poseidon and KC-8 Pegasus aircraft due to Covid-46
Since the day before yesterday, the factories of Boeing in the State of Washington (in the North-West of the United States) started to drastically slow down their activity after the state of emergency was declared in this…
Read the articleThe US Air Force will decide this month if it will outsource part of its aerial refueling missions.
With more than 500 tanker planes in line, the US Air Force alone has more than 70% of the world air fleet specializing in this field. But a big ...
Read the articleWhat really happened to the F-35s deployed in Finland?
In a previous article, we came back to the words of the Finnish HX program manager, Lauri Puranen, who commented on the problems encountered by the F-35 in the context of ...
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