The Air Force and Boeing will conduct testing in October to observe whether KC-46 boom-scraping incidents are occurring at higher rates than on the legacy tanker fleet and will decide later this fall whether to pursue a fix to the deficiency. The scraping, which the program refers to as "undetected contacts outside receptacle" occurs with other legacy tankers. But earlier this year, the program discovered that it may be happening more frequently with the next-generation refueler and has been analyzing...
