Pentagon officials briefed the results of the oft-revised tanker analysis of alternatives on Capitol Hill on Jan. 26. The AOA concludes that USAF should replace its elderly KC-135s with one or more medium-to-large size commercial airframes, but it offers no timetable.
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…
