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To: Poohbah
KC-135's are history. Too much time on their airframes. Last year Boeing Co. signed a HUGE multi-year lease deal with the Gov't to lease them 767 outfitted as tankers.
45 posted on 09/02/2003 10:05:40 AM PDT by Khurkris (Ranger On...)
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To: Khurkris
KC-135's are history. Too much time on their airframes.

Not hardly, the airframes are good to at least 2040. Howver the engines on the -Es are about shot. -R's F-108 engines are still plenty good to go. Some or all -Es could be converted to Rs and even with the addition of some 767 tankers, which is still being fought by the DemoRats and some RINOs, we'd still be short of tankers. Lack of tankers slows deployments, and may impact in theater operations as well, although the actual ops get priority of course, supplying those needs may really impact things elsewhere.

71 posted on 09/02/2003 11:34:04 AM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. or so they think.)
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