Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
Kiwi grey, if they say that they are buying less domestic stuff (per the OP) what makes you think they'd be in the least bit interested in anything else?
I am sure that you enjoy riding your hobby horse.
A330 tankers are being used by most of the US distant coalition partners in the Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific, as well as being selected by Canada., it has already been cleared for almost every type of aircraft in the US inventory as well as overseas partners. If they used the A330-800 base frame that would have a lower hourly block fuel burn than the KC-46.
The last paragraph says to me Boeing has paid the lobbyist a lot of money to stop a RFP because they know they could not win a competition for a bridging tanker on its merits.