With Pegasus Barely Out of the Nest, Air Force Mulls New Foreign Tanker

[rangerrebew]

With Pegasus Barely Out of the Nest, Air Force Mulls New Foreign Tanker
 

Posted By: Oriana Pawlyk April 5, 2017

Less than two years after the Air Force’s new refueling tanker KC-46A Pegasus made its first flight, the service is already considering acquiring another design and potentially a foreign one, the head of Air Mobility Command said on Wednesday.

“Competition breeds excellence,” Gen. Carlton Everhart II told defense reporters during a breakfast in Washington, D.C. “Competition also drives the price down, so if I can have competitors, I don’t care where they come from.”

https://www.defensetech.org/2017/04/05/with-pegasus-barely-out-of-the-nest-air-force-mulls-new-foreign-tanker/

[geronl]

“Competition breeds excellence,” Gen. Carlton Everhart II told defense reporters during a breakfast in Washington, D.C. “Competition also drives the price down, so if I can have competitors, I don’t care where they come from.”

and sooner or later we won't have the ability to build something we might really need.