Have Air Tanker fitted a Boom to any of their fleet yet? Seems a bit daft that a number of RAF aircraft types reliant on just boom re-fuelling while the most expensive PFI deal ever fails to deliver.
Options are being looked at and discussed but as with every thing it’s v v expensive so it’s up to the MoD on where they want spend the very limited cash that’s available.
Its unfair to say that the PFI fails to deliver, it delivers what it was designed to deliver very well. Since its inception and the signing of contracts the RAF has increased the number of aircraft requiring boom AAR that we’re not on the horizon at the time.