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Boeing will have to take a $536 million after-tax charge to its second-quarter results after testing on the ground revealed problems with the integrated fuel system on the KC-46 which requires fixing.
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South Korea will pick one winner out of three contestants for its aerial refueling tanker contest on Jun. 30 at the National Defense Acquisition Program Committee meeting.
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As part of the KC-46 development program, the aerial tanker had to be subjected to a series of weapons survivability test. The U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s Weapons Survivability Laboratory was tasked with the assignment.
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Boeing’s KC-46A prototype flew with a refueling boom and outer wing refueling pods for the first time on Jun. 2.
