incubus wrote:
Perhaps they could hastily retrofit a probe onto the P-8 if it came into RAF service. Call it the P-8P?
Or rather, "Dear Bubba Boeing. Here is a blank cheque. Fill it in with as many noughts as ye shall have need, then fit a probe to the half-dozen P-8s which the RAF can now just about afford".
A small flight of A310s obtained from whoever, modified to boom-only with 4 x ACTs, would probably be less expensive....