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Old 12th Jan 2010, 18:35
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BEagle
 
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....surplus KC 135 Stratotankers....
What? Hasn't the USAF been saying for ages that the KC-135 fleet is getting utterly shagged out and will cost a fortune to keep going - hence their urgent need for the KC-45A.

If they really do have 'surplus KC-135s', why are they 'surplus' if the fleet is in such dire need of replacement?

As for FEs, nice chaps and excellent moose-trappers that they are, who would conceivably bring an aircraft into service in the 21st Century which still needs a FE? You'll be telling me next that they also need a food-powered talking-TACAN in the crew.....

This sounds like another penny-wise, pound-foolish decision by the mad MoD. I'm sure that there will be tears.... An extremely expensive mini-fleet which will undoubtedly be at the total mercy of Bubba Boeing's whims in a few years' time. Surely there must be some younger ETOPS-twins available, rather than 4-engined dinosaurs?

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