Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Classic ase of adding on requirements standards that add very little to the overall mission but then if they'd just bought a KC-767 what would that do for the careers of the Officers given the job of buying it ?
If memory serves, the KC-767 was a disaster, with both subpar performance and massive delivery delays.
So one might have thought that Boeing would by now have learned how to build a tanker version of the 767. Clearly one would have thought wrong, the USAF specs allowed a whole new bunch of flaws to emerge.
I'm confident the Airbus offering would have performed vastly better, if only because they had a NATO spec product ready for production at a new US site.