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Air Force, Boeing Find Path Forward to Fix Major KC-46 Deficiency

By Vivienne Machi

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

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Air Force, Boeing Find Path Forward to Fix Major KC-46 Deficiency

A KC-46A tanker. (Boeing photo)

The Air Force and Boeing [BA] announced April 2 that they have agreed upon a solution to fix the remote vision system on the KC-46A Pegasus, in the hopes of resolving one of the tanker program’s most critical deficiencies. The agreement, which was signed Thursday and first reported by Defense News, is a two-phased approach that will incorporate both near-term software fixes and long-term hardware switches for the camera and display system that allows operators to observe aerial refueling digitally,…

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