Trump enters the White House promising into bring the US military to a “golden age”
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USAF suspends KC-46A tanker deliveries again
For the second time this year, the US Air Force has temporarily stopped accepting new KC-46A Pegasus tankers after finding foreign object debris (FOD) in the Boeing-built airplanes.
‘Our inspectors identified additional foreign object debris and areas where Boeing did not meet quality standards,’ USAF spokesperson Capt Hope Cronin said in a statement on 2 April. ‘Air force leadership is meeting with Boeing to approve additional corrective action plans before aircraft acceptance can resume.’
USAF secretary Heather Wilson, who testified on 2 April before the House Appropriations Committee’s defence panel, attributed the FOD problems to a ‘breakdown [in] manufacturing discipline’ that
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