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Boeing Rakes in $3.8 Billion for 27 KC-46s in Eight Days

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021

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Boeing Rakes in $3.8 Billion for 27 KC-46s in Eight Days

An F-16 Viper from the 49th Wing at Holloman AFB, N.M., conducts air refueling with a KC-46 Pegasus from Altus AFB, Okla., over the skies of New Mexico on Dec. 7, 2020--the first time an Air Education and Training Command KC-46 made contact and transferred fuel to an F-16 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Eight days after the U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing [BA] a $1.7 billion contract for 12 KC-46s in Lot Six of the production line, the service on Jan. 20 bought 15 more tankers in Lot Seven for $2.1 billion. The Jan. 20 announcement by DoD said that the Air Force exercised an option for the purchase of the 15 Lot Seven tankers, which are to be built by May 31, 2024. Acting as cell towers to relay data between the…

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