So, now that the A330 has won KC-X, what about more A330-based aircraft to replace B707s?
What about AWACS, JSTARS, ELINT, TACAMO, &c? Any plans published?
Would only be logical to standardize the large combat support platform.

The E-8C will likely get the new MP-RTIP radar from the cancelled E-10 program.
The first E-3 scheduled for conversion to E-3G (Block 40/45) is to be completed by 2009.

Hey guys, lent is just over for me, and I am getting refuelled with good Italian red wine. 😉 :dev2: 😀
Well, I not sober anymore, my memory is quite dull, so please answer my few questions

Do all KC-10’s have a centerline hose?
How much in % of the USAF Tanker fleet have wingtip refuelling pods?

BTW, happy Easter, Sláinte, , Cheers and Prost! *hicks* 😮

In near future I can see Zeppelin NT’s flying (better “driving” 😉 ) as a tourist attraction over Arab and Asian megacities (like Dubai for an example).

I meant the A330 MRTT F-WWYL now. Ain’t that one destined for the Luftwaffe?

No, the Luftwaffe have only 4 A310 as MRTT’s. No A330 are or will be bought.

The A330 MRTT (F-WWYL) ‘Future Strategic Airtanker’ appeared at RIAT 2003 in yellow primer to promote Airbus’s Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft. It simulated air to air refuelling with two German Tornado IDS.
This aircraft went later on as pax jet to serve with EVA Air as B-16303.

From my records:
[…]
A330 – Australia, Germany, Yemen
A340 – Brunei, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

A340(-300)’s for Germany, not A330’s. see my last post.

[…]The EJ200 was only an option considered by Saab, but they selected the F414 for obvious reasons. It was said that the MAKO might use a version of the EJ200, but I haven’t heared anything new about the MAKO for a long time now, don’t know if this aircraft will ever become a reality. […]

EADS originally intended to use the Eurojet EJ200 on the MAKO, but decided then to use General Electric F414M, which is a slightly derated version (at 75 kN) of the standard F414. But last information about the Mako is over 2 years old.

The German President Horst Köhler decided today, that a new “Medal for Exceptional Bravery” should be created. 🙂

IMHO, the better Decision!
The Iron Cross has still wartime associationshere in Germany.

But the Iron Cross can be still worn in public. Due to german law the Nazi swastika has to be removed! In the 50’s and 60’s Men whore the Iron Cross and even the Knight’s Cross at public occasions, but after the German student movement during the late 1960s in Germany (68′ Generation) nobody with a Iron Cross wanted to be put in the (wrong) right corner.

With that we should bring back our own swastika

But If I’m not totally wrong, isn’t the imperial German war flag (with iron cross) used lot by current neo-nazi/nationalist fundamentalist in Germany? And that they had plans to ban those too along with swastika and assorted?

Yes, the former German Left-green government even wanted to ban the swastika in the EU. But that was rejected by the EU parliament.
The Finnish Air Force still has the swastika on thier Flag.
Every culture should decide for itself.

Hey folks,
the best way to discuss with a “Lobbiest” is just to ignore him. Answering him back is just giving him more (jet) fuel. 🙂

So back to topic,
here a new video!