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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
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Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
The tanker is sent into an area of war. bullets are flying, SAM's are flying, its a bloody mess. An unsurvivable tanker has no chance. What they mean by survivable is that the Airbus is 5x more likely to be knocked out in time of war. If a missile hits the KC-767, it is designed to take the hit and possibly fly home. Kind of important in my book, especially in an age where stealth is near mandatory.
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That's an exaggeration. Tankers are always kept back, and always escorted. Tankers _by their very nature_ are unsurvivable if it's being shot at.
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Come on, it's loaded with 160K pounds of _jet fuel_. If air to air missiles are hitting it, the fact is it isn't a tank.
And they didn't seem to think "survivability" was an issue the first time the 767 was selected?
http://www.military-aerospace-techno....cfm?DocID=335
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