Any rumors when the kc-46 will be operational?

[Clark Griswold]

[Gazmo]

I wonder how all that boom software is going work after a nuclear EMP.

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[GBock]

As opposed to a non-nuclear EMP?

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[mcbush]

Quibling, but yeah, NNEMP is a viable strategy.

"Examples of such operations include the destruction of electronic control systems critical to the operation of many ground vehicles and aircraft." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse#Non-nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse_.28NNEMP.29

[ThreeHoler]

I wonder how all that boom software is going work after a nuclear EMP.

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Yup...and all them nukes that the Stratobladder has survived...

[Homestar]

Selection PSDM 16-25 is up on MyPers. 

https://gum-crm.csd.disa.mil/app/answers/detail/a_id/30767

Congrats to the selects!

[StoleIt]

I feel bad for the selects...they are going to Altus and will get thrown in the KC-135 FTU...and they will probably never touch the -46.

[matmacwc]

On March 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Azimuth said:

The initial cadre hasn't even been selected.

Did any other units get the email to figure out if you are 747/757/767/787 qualified?   The AF is looking to the ANG for help on this.

[di1630]

Why is this so damn complicated to get it certified? I once refueled from an Italian 767 tanker with boom and drougue......WTF USAF? Stop being a shitshow, build the damn thing, we'll figure out how to get gas from it, it's not rocket science.

[Majestik Møøse]

We've built so many military and civilian bureaucratic hoops that no one can navigate them. 

[Tonka]

18 hours ago, di1630 said:

Why is this so damn complicated to get it certified? I once refueled from an Italian 767 tanker with boom and drougue......WTF USAF? Stop being a shitshow, build the damn thing, we'll figure out how to get gas from it, it's not rocket science.

It is clearly a Boeing problem on a firm fixed priced contract; It is in Boeing's best interest to get it built. It is not a question of certifying it, it hasn't even passed milestone C.  If it can't pass gas, what's the point in buying it? I think the Italian version took a decade to enter service... We're only 5 years in! And it took 4 years just to get it to fly.

Did you do an exchange with the Italians?