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Friday, April 04, 2008

Boeing says KC-767 safer in combat zones

Boeing said Thursday that the U.S. Air Force found its KC-767 air tanker more combat worthy than the KC-30.

The U.S. Air Force chose the KC-30, an adaptation of the European Airbus A-330, to be built by Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. over Boeing's proposed KC-767 tanker.

Boeing said in a statement that the U.S. Air Force assessors concluded that the KC-767 had a greater mission capability and more likelihood of escaping destruction when operating in a combat environment than the larger Northrop-EADS KC-30 tanker.

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