{"id":158299,"date":"2024-12-15T23:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/closer-look-boeing-kc-46a-pegasus-tanker-development\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T23:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:30:16","slug":"a-closer-look-at-the-boeing-kc-46a-pegasus-tanker-development-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=158299","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look At The Boeing KC-46A Pegasus Tanker Development Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The KC-46A Pegasus (based on the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254899\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 767<\/span><\/span>) is the USAF&#8217;s newest refueling             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"264989\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tanker\/\"  >tanker<\/a><\/span> and is vital to the Air Force&#8217;s ability to project power around the world. When it comes to aerial refueling tankers, there is the United States Air Force and the rest (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033943\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/worlds-5-largest-tanker-aircraft-fleets\/\" >the US Air Force boasts around 75% of the world&#8217;s tanker fleet<\/a><\/span>). However, the KC-135 Stratotankers the US relies on are aging,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033192\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-retires-final-kc-10-extender-tanker-43-years-service\/\" >while the KC-10 Extender fully retired in 2024<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KC-46A Pegasus is the Air Force&#8217;s newest tanker and is based on the Boeing 767 airliner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,11221,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-kc-46-pegasus","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158300,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158299\/revisions\/158300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}