Originally Posted by
Less Hair
How high can it fly? I agree to the bleeding in advantages but it feels a little slow. How about some P-8 variant? Long range, navy parts and pilots and low profile as well?
There should be parked C-17s available for this low flight hours job if anybody should want to go second hand.
I doubt we have enough C-17s as it is. I don’t know the un refueled endurance of the J but it must be fairly good. I’m not a Navy guy, but I doubt its operational ceiling or speed is a significant issue, except perhaps for tactical repositioning, compared to the E6 or E7. It basically needs to be able loiter and maintain a comm link out in the middle of nowhere.