Boeing Buys Ads to Defend Proposed Tanker Deal

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The report is expected to conclude that the current tanker fleet needs
to be modernized and that it would be too expensive to simply put new
engines in the 40-year-old airframes, according to sources familiar
with the report. But it also says that the Pentagon does not need to
decide how to pursue that modernization immediately, the sources said

The Pentagon could consider several options, including performing an
analysis of alternatives, buying used planes from airlines and turning
them into tankers or using a private leasing service to augment the
current capacity, according to the sources familiar with the report.

-HJC
Boeing, Boeing, Gone.