Boeing’s KC-46 is unique in its ability to switch between the boom and hose-and-drogue during the same mission, allowing the Air Force to refuel more aircraft more quickly.
Rather like the KC-10A and all A330MRTTs except the RAF's Voyager have been doing for several years then?
Boeing is on tap to deliver 18 full-up KC-46s by August 2017.
What does that mean in English? That Boeing are under a no-compromise obligation to deliver the aircraft by then, or that they're actually on target to do so?
Was the 'sixth generation' boom really such a smart idea, given that the KC-767 has been refuelling with the 'fifth generation' boom ever since 2007?
Meanwhile, I see that clearance is being sought to refuel US aircraft from the RAAF KC-30A....
