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The UK is no stranger to engineering, it's not like it would take them years to build or modify a tanker on their own.

Airbus makes the stupid tankers for the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A330_MRTT it's not a problem.

Edit: the US cancelled the Airbus program, but they still can make the boom operated tankers.



It's actually quite hard to build a boom tanker; Boeing's most recently one has been a disaster for the company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-46_Pegasus#Flight_te...


"If Boeing can't do it, it must be hard", is that what you're saying? Are you implying that Boeing is better at building aircraft than Airbus (or really anyone else)?


I said absolutely zero of thise things. I said building a boom tanker is hard.


Sorry about the misunderstanding. It sounded like "so hard that even Boeing has problems", if you see what I mean.




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