Originally Posted by
tdracer
You mean like the A400M?
No one is immune to that disease...
At the risk of repeating myself for the umpteenth time, the A330 MRTT doesn't meet the mandatory USAF requirements - not even close. It would have required a major development program to come up an A330 derivative that did - with no guarantee that Airbus would have performed much better than the lazy B.
No argument re MRTT, but KC-46, in spite of promises, doesn’t meet the agreed requirements either. The company used to be capable of much better.
The problems of the A400M are not an excuse nor justification for the problems of the KC-46. But both programs are shameful failures in spite of remedial attempts to salvage them and will continue to be embarrassments for years hence.