
The U.S. Air Force has decided to end the KC-Y program for buying 150 commercial tankers as a bridge to a future Next-Generation Air-Refueling System (NGAS) tanker--the formerly known KC-Z--and may end up buying 75 more Boeing [BA] KC-46As instead, as the service considers an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) on NGAS. "A lot of this, the AoA will look at, but the kinds of the things that I think are relevant are the ability to go deeper into contested airspace,…