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October 19th 06, 09:39 PM
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Modernizing the Aerial Refueling Fleet.
Modernizing the Aerial Refueling Fleet.
Lexington Institute. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/docs/aerialrefueling.pdf 
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October 20th 06, 02:35 AM
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Modernizing the Aerial Refueling Fleet.
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
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