USAF Worries About Refueler Repair Costs

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As a result of a series of bad oversight decisions by the Pentagon and Congress, procurement mismanagement and politicking on the part of would-be tanker contractors and lawmakers eyeing work for their districts, there appears to be no more clarity now on the way forward to modernize the fleet—whose average age is 45 years—than there was in 2001.

Meanwhile, at AMC, planners are wrangling with how to keep the KC-135s flying until as late as 2043.