The Air Force will not be allowed to purchase more than six additional KC-46 tanker aircraft under the final lot of the contract with Boeing, according to Congress' fiscal year 2024 defense policy bill released Wednesday. The contract signed between the service and Boeing in 2011 included 179 tankers, with the final order expected in FY-27. The bill text released yesterday limits the service from buying more than 179 aircraft, and in order to buy more the Air Force would...
