Originally Posted by
tdracer
As others have noted, it depends on how you define 'contested', but I can attest to the KC-46 being designed to be able to withstand some battle damage. For example, those wire separation requirements that tripped up Boeing so badly were related to ballistic penetration - holes of a certain diameter were not allowed to take out redundant systems.
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soviets nee Russians have a demonstrated ability to take out Boeings...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M...le_Impact.webm