[straps]

Sorry but your wrong also. Sitting at OpaLocka Coast Guard Base are 8 MDs awaiting to be cut up for spare parts and scrap metal, 2 NWest,2Tigers,2 airlux and so on saw them there today going to the BX at OpaLocka ( NW part of Miami )

[Paleo Conservative]

If they're being scrapped, it's probably due to needing a D-check or being difficult to maintain. Also the parts are valuable for airlines flying MD-11's and DC-10's.

There's no way the USAF would use the MD-11 for tankers considering that the tools to build it no longer exist and only a few frames are available anyway. If they wanted to supplement the KC-10 fleet, a 777F based tanker would be better. All 777F based tankers would be new build and identically configured.