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…
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Boeing resumes production of KC-46 and P-8 after three weeks of shutdown
On March 25, Boeing announced that it would cease 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 refueling program, technical problems, delays and additional costs have accumulated, to the point that the thirty aircraft already delivered today ...
Read the articleKC-46 Pegasus faces new technical problems, further increasing pressure on Boeing
For Boeing, the setbacks of the KC-46 Pegasus program are more and more like an endless 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) began to slow down their activity drastically after the state of emergency was declared in this…
Read the articleThe US Air Force will decide this month if it will subcontract part of its flight refueling missions
With more than 500 supply aircraft in line, the US Air Force alone has more than 70% of the world fleet specialized in this field. But great…
Read the articleWhat really happened to the F-35s deployed in Finland?
In a previous article, we returned 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…
Read the articleAirbus announces collaboration with Singapore on the development of an automatic flight refueling capacity
Today, at the Singapore Air Show, Airbus announced that the Republic of Singapore Air Force was the customer for the launch of a new fueling system in…
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