[El Gato]

Russian aircraft use probe and drogue refuelling from wing mounted hosepods. Boeing hasn't been able to get that system to work on its tanker.

That's funny, they've made it work on the KC-135 and the KC-10, both now Boeing products. Not wing mounted, but the KC-10's hose does not deploy from the boom as the -135s does. Plus the Israelis use B-707 tankers which use probe and drogue, with wing mounted pods.

[Oztrich Boy]

That's funny, they've made it work on the KC-135 and the KC-10, both now Boeing products.

Ancient history. The only game in Seattletown is now the KC-767. And they've had to persuade the Pentagon that wing mounted pods should be vapourware on the latest tanker proposal.