Mike wrote:
Modernizing the Aerial Refueling Fleet.
Lexington Institute.
http://lexingtoninstitute.org/docs/aerialrefueling.pdf

I see they have a response to all that money the Navy spent on those
Super Horror airborne tankers.

F/A-18EFs and their highly trained crews “for aerial refueling
rather than combat is seen as a sub-optimization of a scarce and
valuable resource.”
-Page 9

A plan to lease tankers to fill the gap was announced in 2002. It
later died,
-Page 1.

More like killed by corporate stupidity, corruption and greed.

Was this report sponsored by Boeing?

-HJC