then why not buy more freighters? tha damn thing is supposed to be a TANKER, not a glorified DC-8F
Really HH? You're really going to argue that the A330 is a better deal because you also need to buy
another cargo aircraft to provide similar capability to the KC-46?
Listen, some of the USAF requirements during the tanker completion were quite frankly silly - but when we went back and tried to point out how some of the requirements made no sense in the real world, the basic response was along the line of "what part of mandatory don't you understand?" After contract award, we tried again - same response.
D-IFF_ident, I don't think aircraft footprint relates much to it's cargo carrying capability - and in that regard the KC-10 fuselage is ~1 ft. larger in diameter than the A330.