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I do believe that some classes of retired aircraft would make excellent tankers since they are in the same class etc. I will admit I read over your “RJ” comment in the original post and just saw the part about airlines retiring aircraft. Too early, no coffee and it is FRIDAY!!! That is my story and I am sticking to it. Seriously though many of the current airframes could be modified to fill the current gap (which may or may not be real). The cost would be an issue. Sometimes overhauling is more expensive than new. However, the industry has become very good at modifying stuff like the Apache from early models to Longbows. Now if you want to go and modify some 727’s then that is a different ball game. Back to the original question. The military personnel deserve the best we can give them and the taxayers deserve to pay the least for it as they can.