![]() We need to use more affordable AIRPLANES and spend our money on PILOTS. There is only a SALARY SHORTAGE! Solve the sorry low salaries for pilots and there will be plenty of pilots. it may be expected that half of all ejections will survive to fight again (after the back surgery)….which means we will STILL BE OUTNUMBERED and will LOSE a protracted war simply due to NUMBERS! Over two years ago, Simple Flying took a look at Airbus' modified A330-200 variant in an article. If the enemy has 100 airplanes with 100 pilots sitting in ejection-seats… and we have 15 or 20 advanced aircraft with 20 pilots sitting in ejection-seats…. The KC-46: Boeing's Military 767 With A 787-Style Cockpit. spends huge dollars on sophisitcated technologically advanced aircraft in the false believe that technology will win-the-day in a conflict. This is accomplished through the addition of armor around the cockpit and fuel tank. spent a ton of money developing the F16 only to discover that Five F-5s (an armed T38 with similar capability to the typical Soviet fighter of the period) would shoot down an F16. The KC-46 is also designed to be more survivable in the event of a high intensity conflict with near-peer enemy. has lost it’s Memory: The Soviets defeated Nazi Germany with NUMBERS! Not technology…the Germans had that…. ![]() Our folks that are still qualified on the KC-10 will continue to fly with the other KC-10 squadron until we send. Boeing engineers have selected the T3CAS Integrated Surveillance System and FA2100 Cockpit. Nicholas Arthur said in a July 1 interview, with the image of a KC-10 still on his uniform name patch. Today, we’re officially a KC-46 squadron, 2nd ARS Commander Lt. What has changed? Do we not have anti-missile capability such as on Air Force One? Do we not have electronic countermeasures? Do we not have protective fighter cover? McGuire had 32 KC-10s before retirements began. This was all the protection a tanker needed. The enemy would not be capable of catching them, even if they were super-sonic, before running out of fuel. ![]() I worked with a KC-135 (ex) driver who explained that during the VN conflict they operated sufficiently off-shore that any in-coming enemy would be detected by AWACS and the tanker would turn away and speed further off-shore.
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