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Delay Foreseen for Fielding RVS 2.0 for KC-46A Tanker

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Delay Foreseen for Fielding RVS 2.0 for KC-46A Tanker
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, Ninth Air Force commander and Combined Forces Air Component commander for U.S. Central Command, exits a KC-46A Pegasus on Sept. 3, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Grynkewich flew on a KC-46A Pegasus based out of McConnell AFB, Kansas, during Air Mobility Command’s multi-week Employment Concept Exercise. The Air Force said that on Aug. 29 a KC-46A in the exercise completed the first operationally-tasked KC-46A combat sortie, refueling two F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Remote Vision System 2.0 (RVS 2.0) for the Boeing [BA] KC-46A Pegasus tanker will likely have a fielding delay of less than a year, Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter said on Sept. 20. "As we were doing the critical design review [CDR] on RVS 2.0, there were some changes that were identified by the team," Hunter said in response to a question at a media roundtable at the Air & Space Forces Association annual conference. "That's why we…

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