Is no news, good? Maybe. Perhaps, though, we should wait until the other pea under the shell stops moving. The Senate, according to Levin, is in a wait-and-see mode, biding its time until the Pentagon finally releases the Air Force analysis of alternatives and makes its decision on how to go about replacing USAF’s elderly aerial refueling fleet.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.
