Analysts Warn Of U.S. Tanker Gap
The Air Force’s tanker fleet will contract significantly as KC-135s become too expensive to repair and new tankers come on line at the anemic production rate of just 15 aircraft per year, analysts warn. USAF Lt. Gen. (ret.) Norm Seip and Rebecca Grant predict that the first group of 179 new KC-Xs...
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