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Japan already has at least two and Italy one.
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Scott,
Great photos mate, hope you're well buddy. Morris |
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They would be 767-200ERs, not 767-400ERs as shown in Scotts photos. |
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wasn't Boeing's proposal for the USAFtanker project based on a 762ER platform rather than the 767-400?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-10_MC2A
E-10 isn't the tanker. KC-767 (762ER) lost to KC-45 (A332) for the USAF aerial refueling competition thingy |
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Yes sorry if there was any confusion there chaps . Torins link will tell you all about the E-10 and he was also right in correcting that Japan and Italy also have taken delivery of some of their 762 tankers. Japan currently has a yellow primer 762 tanker frame up at PAE which should fly in the next week or so. I can post a photo of one of Italy's tankers if required/wanted ??? Scott. Hey Mori, soggy but good. Snow today and we're in spring !!!!!
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E-10 is designed to replace the E-8C Joint STARS 707s, although funding has been slowed to a trickle in recent years.
A big canoe fairing will be added under the forward fuselage to carry a big SAR radar antenna.
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Next Japanese tanker first flight was today.
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The tankers which Italy and Japan have placed orders for are straight-up conversions of 767-200ER aircraft. The E-10 which Scott took a couple of photos of is based off the 767-400ER platform and it seems as though it is/was a replacement for the Boeing 707-based E-3 Sentry AWACS, the E-8 Joint STARS aircraft, and EC-135 ELINT aircraft. So from that the question I have for Scott is... why do you suggest that the E-10 will soon be collecting dust out in the desert? Did the development ..and ultimately the production of the E-10 depend on the new KC-767 Advanced Tanker winning the USAF aerial refueling bid? .... couldn't it still be built regardless of the KC-767's fate? |
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