Originally Posted by O-P
Why would it need a boom?
Will it have RR engines? Why did I even ask!!
Perhaps because they are to replace France's 11 C-135FRs and 3 KC-135Rs (all 14 with both hose and boom).
Starting in 2009 the AdlA began modernizing the avionics in the C-135FRs (all of which had been "redelivered" by 2013) and added the KC-135Rs in June 2013 (the first, redesignated KC-135RG, was redelivered in August 2014).