04 April 2016 - The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) is interested in provisioning its Airbus Defence and Space (DS) A330-200 Voyager tanker-transport aircraft with a boom, if the funding can be sourced, a senior service official told reporters.
Speaking at the FIDAE Airshow in Santiago on 30 March, Deputy Commander of Operations Air Marshal Greg Bagwell said the operational case for equipping at least some of the UK's Voyagers with a boom has already been accepted by the service, but that there is currently no money available for the conversion work that would need to be done to the hose-and-drogue-equipped aircraft.
"If money were no object and I could wave a magic wand, I would put a boom on a Voyager tomorrow," AM Bagwell said, adding; "The flexibility that it provides is obvious, especially in an interoperable environment, but it all comes down to practical delivery and cost."
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