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Air Force Officials: KC-46 Remote Vision System Fix Expected in 2023

By Vivienne Machi

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020

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Air Force Officials: KC-46 Remote Vision System Fix Expected in 2023

A KC-46A tanker takes off from Boeing Field outside Seattle en route to McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, Jan. 31, 2019. The program suffered $275 million in charges in the fourth quarter of 2020. Photo: Boeing

The Air Force expects to receive a solution to its biggest Category-1 deficiency on the KC-46A Pegasus tanker by 2023, one year behind previous estimates, the service’s senior military official told the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) March 3. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein told committee members that the KC-46’s Remote Vision System (RVS) has seen enormous progress over the past few weeks and he expects the service and prime contractor Boeing [BA] to reach an agreement…

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