Originally Posted by
KenV
Really? Do all A330MRTTs have a main deck cargo door? Do they have a main deck floor designed, stressed, and equipped to handle freight? Do the UK's Voyagers? Adding a main deck cargo door and main deck freighter floor is a damn serious "reconfiguration" if that's what the customer needs. Can the A330MRTT 3D camera vision system enable the boom operator to pass gas to receiver equipped stealth aircraft under all lighting conditions? Yet another serious "reconfiguration" issue of that's what the customer needs. Can the A330MRTT act as an airborne data relay station for stealth aircraft equipped with directional datalink systems? I could go on, but I think the point has been made. And in case you missed it, the point is that neither the A330MRTT nor the KC-767 can do many of the things that are required of the KC-46.
If you mean, can the A330 MRTT refuel at night under strict lightning conditions, yes it can and does over Iraq and Syria.
Given that F-35 and F-22 communicate only with each other on specialist datalinks, then no the A330 MRTT cannot, but nor can the KC-46. However the MRTT does have Link 16,so can communicate by other means.
Can a KC-46 get airborne with a full load of fuel from a 9,000 foot runway? I'd question that.